R A C H E L T H O M S O N
  • home
  • photography
  • drawings & etchings
  • artists books
  • biog
Picture
"But one of the problems for people with brain injury is being creative and
productive within themselves. Sometimes it is there, but it’s so rusty and torn to
the many different angles, it’s hard to fit it together again...... But you don’t
always have self-belief, and it is difficult to look back and see what you did do
once upon a time. And then perhaps you would try that element but it’s not the
same....... What I feel, thoughts and all the rest of it, I don’t always approach.
Unfortunately the bee has not got a hive to go into!"
​(from Jackie's story in 'Who Are You Now', Headway project 2016)
Picture
Picture

Beehive starting to buzz!

1/26/2017

4 Comments

 
Jackie spins the wheel of fortune on a Victorian etching press at East London printmakers yesterday! This was the start of our Beehive project which is a happy art collaboration between me and Jackie, over the next three months we will work together to make a series of drawings and prints of womens gestures that reveal inner thoughts and feelings.
Below you can see some of the stages Jackie learnt in making her first Intaglio copperplate etching.
Picture
KEEP ON ROLLIN'
Picture
THE COPPER PLATE IS DIPPED IN FERRIC ACID TO ETCH THE IMAGE
Picture
INK IS WIPED ONTO THE PLATE BEFORE IT GETS PRINTED
Picture
ROLLING THE PLATE THROUGH THE PRESS
Picture
MORE ROLLING!
Picture
THE PRINT IS REVEALED
Picture
THE ARTISTS FIRST PROOF!
Picture
THE COPPERPLATE WITH ADDED LINES OF ETCHED DRAWING. MORE WILL BE ADDED TO THIS IMAGE SO CHECK IN AGAIN NEXT WEEK!
4 Comments

    Archives

    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017

    RSS Feed

    ABOUT US
    The Beehive project is a three month drawing, printing and bookbinding collaboration between Rachel Thomson and Jackie Murin.


    Jackie is a participating artist at Action Space, she has been part of multiple exhibitions including the Cockpit Arts Open and 'The Shop of Curiosities' at the Geddes Gallery. She has volunteered for the Leighton Project at Elfrieda Rathbone Centre since 2009 supporting young people with learning disabilities in developing their arts practice. 

    Rachel  trained in photography and print media and has twenty years experience working as an artist. Her studio work is drawing and photography based using cyanotype, etching and monotype and is concerned with female identity and the environment. She also enjoys engaging others in the creative potential of process based art and  has been a regular artist volunteer at Action Space since October 2015.


Proudly powered by Weebly
  • home
  • photography
  • drawings & etchings
  • artists books
  • biog