Royal West Academy Photography (mixed media) Show 2023
March 22nd UPDATE SOLD
Heatwave has sold to a lady sculptor who is interested in the cyanotype process. I am really pleased the painting will be cherished.
This is amazing!
I was selected for the RWA photographic exhibition this year!
They have not had a photographic show for 20 years!
I love the Royal West Academy. I have been visiting this stunning venue for the last fourteen years. I actually discovered this through a trip organised through the Topsham Art group. I owe a lot of my motivation and inspiration to that local group.
The very first time I showed any work was with the Topsham Art Group in their annual show back in 2009/10. Back then Oscar (my oldest son) was a baby. It was having Oscar that steered me on a course directly back into my painting.
My Piece is a Cyanotype print that I made using the power of the sun.
Last year I started experimenting with cyanotype and mixed media.
This all came about when I took my children on a cyanotype printing course with a local artist Bridget Arnold.
Bridget uses pure cyanotype to create stunning naturalistic images using plants.
https://www.bridgetarnold.co.uk/
Bridget told me about a woman called Anna Atkins who used cyanotypes to record scientific specimens she found. It is thought she could have been the fist ever female photographer.
https://www.alternativephotography.com/cyanotype-history-john-herschels-invention/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins
To produce the series of works I made to create Heatwave I used cyanotype, acrylic paint, acrylic inks and oil pastels.
I have many ideas concerning the further use of this media in my work.
