Print of The Month: July 2019
Stephen Chambers RA,
The Moon is Down
Date: 2012
Size (cm - unframed): 74.5 x 90.5
Technique: Screenprint
Materials: Somerset Cream 300gsm
Edition size: 30
A veil of distinctive pattern covers the collaborative work made with Royal Academician Stephen Chambers. An intricately woven motif is lifted by a wash made on Truegrain. The effect creates a billowing, hot haze - reminiscent of the summer heatwaves that have hit us this month here in Cambridge. The idea was to ‘print air’, Chambers praises the precision achieved in the ‘threaded web’ as a ‘perfect fusion of the digital and the analogue’ in the printmaking process.
The perplexing narrative of this nighttime scene includes a secretive meeting of horse riders - in describing the context of the print, Chambers mentions a connection to Washington crossing the Delaware.
Prints from the edition are available. Contact the Studio for more information.
