City of Bath College   2009/2010

Anne Deeming

Through this project I'm looking to explore the dialogue between my painting and printmaking. Both have existed seperately in my work for sometime and I hope to explore their relationship to one another and seek a method of producing pieces that contain both elements. Intially my thoughts in this area are "getting off canvas" and producing wallpapers that will exploit the innate propensity in printmaking to produce multiples.

Already much of my work involves intricate, repeat patterns often layered on top of each other but currently produced by a painstaking method of placing drops of paint onto horizontal canvases.The patterns that are created by the configuration of dots, are repeated over and again and challenge the inevitability of the loss of individuality created by the process of mass production by their slight variation in size and position:The human eye and hand can only be finitely precise. With the proximity of the colours, and the and placement of the dots the paintings create a feeling of unease, unrest, motion. Themes echoed in my screenprints;the images only capture a moment just passed, a scene just out of frame. Devoid of visible brush marks, with their raised, Braille like surfaces, the painted pieces are incredibly tactile, and with this introduction of the relief/dimensional aspects of my painting technique to the print process

I hope to begin making experimental pieces that will eventually enable me to produce large,modular works in my own studio. I hope that this opportunity with AACA will provide an environment in which to examine my own work in a new way, to look at the surface on which I make my work and it’s significance on and relationship to the image contained in it.