My last Newsletter started with a sincere hope that I still have – that everyone of you is well and keeping safe; that you are managing physical isolation while maintaining social connectedness. Image left: Conondale Fishbone Fern, EV1/6, ©Jacky Lowry 2020, Collagraph Print with Relief Roll. Like so many others,...
Ponderings on Procrastination
A new collagraph print with surface roll – Banksia serrata 3
After a year of being in sort-of recess, I am getting back into art making and growing an art business. Studio time is blocked out, and and a new collagraph print has been made. It’s a little different this time, as I decided to use a surface relief roll...
The Story of Grace, my printing press
One of the disconcerting things about graduating from art school is that you lose access to specialised tools. I had discovered the joys of printmaking as a student, but now, suddenly, it became a lot harder to do. I was living in Brisbane, Australia at the time, and so...
In Memoriam – the story of a print
How did I come to write for a printmaking magazine? Pressing Matters is a wonderful, rather new printmaking magazine, that started in 2017. Their last article is always The Story Behind the Print, and while reading one earlier in the year, it occurred to me that I had a...