World Printmakers at ESTAMPA 2003
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Printmakers Booth, Bradford and Herland
World Printmakers at ESTAMPA 2003 |
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Mamta Herland, from Assam in India, has studied art and computer science in Norway, Australia and the U.K. It seems only natural that her work should reflect technology, universality and a cosmopolitan viewpoint, which it certainly does. This is Mamta's first major print fair and she's looking forward to finding the answers to a lot of questions about her own work, her colleagues' work, the European fine-art print market and the food in Madrid. Mamta
is the author of The
Shift Towards Digital Print in Future Art and
Mamta Digitized, both published
recently on World Printmakers.
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 "Strength," digital print by Mamta Herland |
 "Paragate," a digital drawing by Martha Jane Bradford |
Martha
Jane Bradford never
expected to be exhibiting at a major European print fair but got involved "through
the magic of Internet." She has been a professional artist for 25 years,
and
serves on the Board of the Boston Printmakers. Her digital charcoal images are
drawn by hand in Corel Painter 6 using virtual natural media and a digitizing
tablet and pen; they are output as limited edition fine art prints on rag paper
using an Iris inkjet printer. They are not reproductions or scans, nor are they
manipulated photographs. Martha Jane affirms, "The subjects of my landscapes are ordinary scenes transformed by light in a way that suggests a spiritual narrative. My style is hyper-realist in order to present this numinous quality of the phenomenal world as truly existing. Villages along the Maine coast are a major source of my subject matter." World Printmakers recently published Martha Jane's howto article, Martha Bradford's Digital Drawing. |
| Maureen
Booth, who participated in the
first ESTAMPA fair in Madrid in 1993 and many times since, returns this year with
a whole new line of work. "I was talking with my friend Antonio Damián,
a good artist who also teaches printmaking, about putting texture onto my plates,"
says Maureen, "and he showed me how to use a liquid solder solution which
the local body shops use. So I got a few tubes and made some tests. I confess
I was totally captivated by it. I like to mix it with traditional etching tecniques." Maureen, who is also co-founder of World Printmakers, has been making prints since the late seventies when she was selected to participate in the printmaking program of the Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta in Granada, Spain. |
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