Artwork description:

On either side of a canal stand a fox and goose, each with a watchful eye. Over the course of history, the fox and the goose have come to represent the sly and the treasured respectively. The fox covetous of the goose. Here I portray them as two characters wary of each other and separated solely by a bridge.

This 8 colour silkscreen is printed on Rosapina, a heavyweight 250 gram handmade paper from Italy and is in a limited edition of 50. The image size is 18.5 x 25.5 inches on a paper size of 21 x 29 inches

A colour silkscreen print is created by building up an image with several layers of individually printed colours. This process is called colour separation. Each colour has its own 'positive' which is made on acetate or tracing paper (see photos for reference) which is then exposed to a UV light with a screen coated in photo-sensitive emulsion.

Materials used:

water based acrylic ink on a heavyweight handmade paper

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