Title: Seashore I
Size: 60cm x 40cm
Medium: Screenprint
Louise Peet
Artist Status: Purchase
About This Work
Screenprints are made by blocking out areas of a silk screen and then
forcing ink through the clear areas onto paper; successive screens are
overlaid and different colours squeezed through the silk mesh to eventually
create images of great subtlety and vibrancy. This series of pieces by
Louise is based on the shapes and colours of the seashore; the foam of
the salt sea, the texture and form of the seashells and seaweed, the grain
of the sand. The techniques of screenprinting lend themselves well to
this subject matter and there is a suggestion within this detailed microcosm
of the planets and macrocosm of the skyscape.
Artist Background
Louise is a graduate of Dublin's Institute of Technology Fine Art Department, qualifying in 1993, and is a painter and printmaker. She has exhibited her work throughout Ireland, most recently at the National Concert Hall and the Original Print Gallery in Dublin, and was awarded the Eva Prize in 1998 and the Douglas Hyde Gold Medal and Arts Council Award for Painting in 2000. Louise's work is in numerous private collections, including the Allied Irish Bank and she is a Trustee of the St. Vincent's Trust Arts Committee. She is a member of the well-known Black Church Printmakers' Studio in Dublin's Temple Bar district.
- Other Works by this Artist
- Seashore II
- Seashore III