presence and absence…

September 28, 2024 Susi Bancroft

presence and absence

these little sweet pea monoprints explore a theme which forever holds me

Published by Susi Bancroft

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combining a walking and artistic practice of researching and making

a holding space for documenting through images and scraps of notes – catching ideas, thoughts, little offerings of making…

In 2022 and 2023 this was all part of a layered process of making some new work – there were also little folded pocket books taken on walks to draw and write in, quick colour impressions added when back home; peace silk organza pieces with botanical prints; stitches on paper; sound field recordings; little clay tiles with prints pressed in from natural objects, small knitted random squares of colours and textures, lino prints, cyanotype photograms

..and then as those years kept turning there were naturally dyed and stitched quilts – larger pieces of work growing from all these little experiments in making and each with a field recording of bird song to accompany it

2024 has been a year where a daily ritual of drawing has been my touchstone, and of drawing attention to small
finds in nature; printmaking has developed from my drawings -with lino, and then mono prints…

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