Roz Edenbrow is an Art and Graphics teacher at a secondary school in London, and discovered mono-printing through learning to teach the process to her students; “It’s quick, fun and does not need as much preparation as stencil based screen printing“. She quickly fell in love with the process, and found herself creating exemplar work for her classes more and more in her spare time.
Roz’s prints have continued to develop alongside her teaching, where, without exposure units she has exposed screens in the sun. This has lead her to step away from fine detail and alignment focused printmaking she learnt whilst studying Graphic Design at Brighton University.
“I have given myself over to more serendipitous designs, and learning to deal with prints not looking quite right first print down. I love this approach to printmaking, if it doesn’t look right, can you print over it? And again? Can you cut it up? Can you mount it? Can you include it in a collage?”
Roz is inspired by botanical shapes and colours when creating her mono-prints. Without access to a garden during lockdown she has turned her living room into a plant nursery, and her tiny front patio into a pot-plant vegetable patch. Not wanting her depictions of plants and flowers to be too twee, she combines gestural, energetic marks made through the mono-printing technique with flat, one colour, geometric shapes. Reflecting the inspiration of artists such as Dieter Roth or Julie Mehretu, she incorporates contrasts in texture and shape in her work.
Whilst at home in isolation, and without access to a studio, Roz has turned her living room into a studio. “Space limitations have forced me to slow down and change the type of prints I make… I’ve particularly enjoyed making smaller, more detailed prints” describes the printmaker. Without studio time pressures, she has enjoyed carefully considering her layering and composition. Using screens she has exposed for past projects in different ways, through cropping into them or printing part of them, Roz has created a series of lock down prints.
As we continue to navigate lockdown, she hopes to revisit old projects and continue to explore composition, reconsidering the scale of the work she normally produces by experimenting with creating some large-scale pieces.
www.redenbrow.com
@rossie_edenbrow
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