Etching And Chine Colle Edition of 12 Dimensions (WxH): 67 x 57cm
Rachael Kantaris was born in Australia and grew up in Cornwall. She studied at Falmouth and Brighton, completing a Degree in Fine Art and Dance, and MA in Printmaking. She exhibits widely working in studios in Berlin, Melbourne, and through the British Council exhibited and curated an exhibition of contemporary printmaking in Manila. She teaches and and runs the Porthmeor Print Workshop in St Ives.
Her work is driven by a fascination for colour. Etching is a very physical medium, often involving quite textured and deeply embossed areas, and she explores this sculptural quality, enjoying the contradiction between the craft of working with the metal, and the painterly image she aims to achieve on the paper. Above all she loves the richness of etching, the sumptuous velvety texture unique to this medium.
Imagery develops from an exploration of something ambiguous; a sense of place, perspective, emotion. From here the piece becomes an adventure involving alchemy, and weeks of proofing, but unique to the etching process is that none of this struggle shows and the finished piece has a freshness and glow, there’s something magical about the moment you finally lift the image off the press and you’ve got it right.
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Etching And Chine Colle Edition of 12 Dimensions (WxH): 67 x 57cm
Rachael Kantaris was born in Australia and grew up in Cornwall. She studied at Falmouth and Brighton, completing a Degree in Fine Art and Dance, and MA in Printmaking. She exhibits widely working in studios in Berlin, Melbourne, and through the British Council exhibited and curated an exhibition of contemporary printmaking in Manila. She teaches and and runs the Porthmeor Print Workshop in St Ives.
Her work is driven by a fascination for colour. Etching is a very physical medium, often involving quite textured and deeply embossed areas, and she explores this sculptural quality, enjoying the contradiction between the craft of working with the metal, and the painterly image she aims to achieve on the paper. Above all she loves the richness of etching, the sumptuous velvety texture unique to this medium.
Imagery develops from an exploration of something ambiguous; a sense of place, perspective, emotion. From here the piece becomes an adventure involving alchemy, and weeks of proofing, but unique to the etching process is that none of this struggle shows and the finished piece has a freshness and glow, there’s something magical about the moment you finally lift the image off the press and you’ve got it right.
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