Pauline Meade
Printmaking is a constantly fascinating and sometimes surprising artform in that the results are not entirely predictable. Depending on the processes and materials used, a huge range of markmaking and effects is possible. At different times depending on my interests and facilities available, I have made lithographs, screenprints, etchings and relief prints. Most of my current work is relief print from lino blocks, which I make at my home studio in Cumbria.
My starting point is watercolour sketches made outdoors, mostly from the landscape and flora of the northern Pennines and Lake District Fells. From these I develop small editions of relief prints. Each Layer of ink is printed by hand and often wiped out in certain areas which means that the edition, although similar, will not be identical. I make use of the transparency of the oil based colours to produce new colours. Prints can look quite startling in the early stages where they might for example, have large areas of yellow, to be later printed over with blues to produce different shades of green. The print gradually builds up to the final stage, and peeling off the paper after the last inking is an exciting moment for any printmaker.
C.V
1994 BA Hons (First class) Graphic Art and Design with specialism in printmaking. Leeds Metropolitan University
2000 PGCE for post 16 education
Up to 2006, alongside my own artwork, occasional part time teaching in adult and further education, school workshops and participation in the running of an open access print workshop.
I currently work from my home studio in Cumbria, selling work through art fairs and galleries around Britain. Work has been purchased for hospitals and business premises, as well as by private buyers. I also lead an annual residential course at Malham Tarn Field Centre on ‘Printmaking without a press’.
Recent and Forthcoming exhibitions
2007 Leeds Art Fair, The Light, Leeds
2007 Printfest, The Coronation Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria
2007 The Harlow Carr Artists Summer exhibition, Harrogate
2007 The Lake Artists Summer exhibition, Grasmere, Cumbria
2008 Cumbria Open Exhibition, Upfront Gallery, Hutton in the Forest, Cumbria
2008 2 - 4 May Printfest, The Coronation Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria
2008 23 May – 8 June on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Leeds Fine Art Club exhibition, North Light Gallery, Huddersfield
2008 16 June -20 July Printmaking exhibition, Upfront Gallery
2008 23 July – 10 August The Harlow Carr Artists summer exhibition.