Sally-Spens-St-James-Park,-Plane-Tree-Waterfall

About the Artist

The Victoria & Albert Museum archived a seven year collaboration with Kawashima and from their research found that Sally Spens and Kim Bentley are historically the only western textile designers to have been commissioned by a Japanese textile company.

A graduate of Goldsmiths’ College, Spens’ return to etching has again led east, where there is little divide between fine and applied arts. Her etchings have been exhibited in Hong Kong and Singapore with Fine ArtConsultancy who represent British and Japanese artists. In 2015, her work was selected by Prof. Lui Xiangke for inclusion in the Xiaoxiang International Printmaking Exhibition in China.

 “The etchings of imagined pots in this exhibition link to another discipline of the applied arts – ceramics. Images drawn from memory and observation combine with that of vessels, tapping into an associativeresponse.

The inspirations are various – the ‘January in Kyoto’ and ‘January in London‘ etchings reference time spent in both cities. ‘Land’ was inspired by a shell in the British Museum that reminded me of imaginary landscapes,‘Flow’ evolved from observational drawings of oil on water, thinking about pattern in a time-less flooded with images.

‘Sojourn’ and ‘Deja Blue’ are part of the ‘Revisited’ series that included impressed embroidery sewn for an earlier artwork that combined silk, wood and white stones. The vase is one I have in the studio, made in the 1920’s and it’s likeness to a big white pebble gave me the idea of combining a drawing with my embroidery to make a series of etchings that would still retain echoes of the original work”

On the making of her etchings she comments “intaglio onto copper plate, allows for infinite variations of expression and the transformation of images. The plates are hand-inked, and I often layer paint and print whencreating the artworks.”

St James Park, Plane Tree Waterfall

£975

W 70 cm x H 70 cm

Etching Hand Coloured

Edition 35

Framed

2020

Ships from: United Kingdom

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About the Artist

The Victoria & Albert Museum archived a seven year collaboration with Kawashima and from their research found that Sally Spens and Kim Bentley are historically the only western textile designers to have been commissioned by a Japanese textile company.

A graduate of Goldsmiths’ College, Spens’ return to etching has again led east, where there is little divide between fine and applied arts. Her etchings have been exhibited in Hong Kong and Singapore with Fine ArtConsultancy who represent British and Japanese artists. In 2015, her work was selected by Prof. Lui Xiangke for inclusion in the Xiaoxiang International Printmaking Exhibition in China.

 “The etchings of imagined pots in this exhibition link to another discipline of the applied arts – ceramics. Images drawn from memory and observation combine with that of vessels, tapping into an associativeresponse.

The inspirations are various – the ‘January in Kyoto’ and ‘January in London‘ etchings reference time spent in both cities. ‘Land’ was inspired by a shell in the British Museum that reminded me of imaginary landscapes,‘Flow’ evolved from observational drawings of oil on water, thinking about pattern in a time-less flooded with images.

‘Sojourn’ and ‘Deja Blue’ are part of the ‘Revisited’ series that included impressed embroidery sewn for an earlier artwork that combined silk, wood and white stones. The vase is one I have in the studio, made in the 1920’s and it’s likeness to a big white pebble gave me the idea of combining a drawing with my embroidery to make a series of etchings that would still retain echoes of the original work”

On the making of her etchings she comments “intaglio onto copper plate, allows for infinite variations of expression and the transformation of images. The plates are hand-inked, and I often layer paint and print whencreating the artworks.”