Skyscapes

Skyscapes

Skyscapes – We moved to Eastbourne in 2009 and, during the winter months, have a spectacular panoramic view of the sun rising over the sea.  Since that time I have taken around between about four thousand digital photographs of the dawn sky.  From time to time I have also taken night-time views and am now taking more of cloud formations during the day-time.  In 2016, as was always the intention, I finally started using these photographs as source material with a view to creating, over time, a large body of work titled Skyscapes and made numbers I to V.  However, I then started working on the two series Trees & Roots and Lines so didn’t return to Skyscapes until 2022 when I started making a series of multi-screen monoprints.  In each case the background is printed as a blend with a small number being made at the time (say 3 – each being slightly different).  Then a number of separate workings (painting through an open screen) are printed onto a background to build up the image until I feel it is finished.  Some have overprinted merges or transparent layers. I usually work on two or three monoprints at the same time.  As mentioned on the About page, Skyscape VIII 3 was chosen for the showreel shown at the gallery as part of the Bainbridge Open 2023 and XII 2 and XV 2 were selected by the Panel and shown as part of the Curated Hang at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023.  As at October 2023 there are 30 finished works in this series and I intend continuing to work in this fashion / on this series for the foreseeable future.

As with Trees & Roots and Lines, the numbering system is purely sequential and, to some degree, chronological and of no other consequence.