Kathleen Sherin
 "I think I think" |
I am interested in creating works on paper with the visual impact of paintings. My ongoing search is for bold, emotive and contemplative statements reflective of psychological states that express conflict, confrontation and a tentative balance. Images that may present an initial simple visual statement reveal underlying more complex associations with intellectual and emotional ideas. My conceptual model revolves around a relationship between visual fragments and whole ideas or experiences.
Tactility and physicality as part of visual perception and experience is important to me. In my most recent and largest body of work - the Knotted Rope Series - a knotted rope provides the visual core. The knot as an image is simultaneously complex and simple; it is symbolic of strength, power and unity but also stress and complications. It is the representation of an action taken; the act of tying a knot involves human action and a physical memory. My fascination with the knot image's endless associations - and multi-layered symbolic nature - organic, visceral, sensual and figurative, emotionally resonant has been the inspiration for this series
All my prints are one-of-a-kind or limited variations on one. Each work is an original work of art and not a reproduction of another work. I employ a variety of techniques and processes that derive from drawing, painting, collage and. printmaking (drypoint, collagraph, chine colle, monotype, and intaglio processes.). My prints are created on an etching press using etching and lithography inks on archival, printmaking paper.
My prints have been labeled "variable relief monoprints". Final prints are created from a layering of cut plates, dry point plates and intuitive, expressive inking. My open-ended manner of working provides a mixture of control and freedom that is essential to my work. As with many monotype or monoprint methods --- the spontaneous input of the artist is an inseparable part of the creation of each piece. The final print is a painterly print which reveals evidence of the working hand of the artist.
Kathleen Sherin
Tactility and physicality as part of visual perception and experience is important to me. In my most recent and largest body of work - the Knotted Rope Series - a knotted rope provides the visual core. The knot as an image is simultaneously complex and simple; it is symbolic of strength, power and unity but also stress and complications. It is the representation of an action taken; the act of tying a knot involves human action and a physical memory. My fascination with the knot image's endless associations - and multi-layered symbolic nature - organic, visceral, sensual and figurative, emotionally resonant has been the inspiration for this series
All my prints are one-of-a-kind or limited variations on one. Each work is an original work of art and not a reproduction of another work. I employ a variety of techniques and processes that derive from drawing, painting, collage and. printmaking (drypoint, collagraph, chine colle, monotype, and intaglio processes.). My prints are created on an etching press using etching and lithography inks on archival, printmaking paper.
My prints have been labeled "variable relief monoprints". Final prints are created from a layering of cut plates, dry point plates and intuitive, expressive inking. My open-ended manner of working provides a mixture of control and freedom that is essential to my work. As with many monotype or monoprint methods --- the spontaneous input of the artist is an inseparable part of the creation of each piece. The final print is a painterly print which reveals evidence of the working hand of the artist.
Kathleen Sherin
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