Mandy Walden :: Contact Info :: Artist Statement :: Previous Exhibitions

Title: They made for the shore, work all done, the golden moon a welcome home, Aldeburgh Medium: Collagraph Size (h x w): 59cm x 32cm Guide Price: £215
Title: They gathered with the rising moon as bright light shone keeping all safe, Happisburgh Lighthouse Medium: Collagraph Size (h x w): 36cm x 37cm Guide Price: £195
Title: As gold moon rose beyond crumbling cliff the quest began, Covehithe Medium: Collagraph Size (h x w): 18cm x 19cm Guide Price: £110
Title: That strange night all came home, golden fish to greet a golden moon Southwold Medium: Collagraph Size (h x w): 36cm x 37cm Guide Price: £195
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Artist Statement
I have always lived, as have my family for many generations, within a few miles of the Suffolk coastline and it is the unique character and history of this area which remains a constant source of fascination and inspiration for me. I intend in my work to celebrate this landscape... not as an idealistic pretty picture in which the sky is always blue and the existence of that biting east wind is denied ...but rather to communicate an atmosphere of place and the feelings of folk-in a sense a celebration of magical ordinariness-a story to be told. It is this strong narrative element which has become a significant development in my work both in composition and reflected further in the incorporation of extended passages of text accompanying each image.

I am essentially self taught and over the years have become obsessed by the incidental and textural marks that occur in printmaking. I etch the image onto a card block with a scalpel and at times further enrich this with collaged materials. The block is then sealed, inked in one, sometimes two, colours and finally printed on a large etching press, I then hand colour each print in a variety of media. It is a lengthy and absorbing process but one that ensures each image is very much an individual piece of art.

Along side the original hand –made prints, I produce a range of art cards under the name “Mangles” that are developed from the collagraph images and serve to make my work more accessible to a wider audience. This illustrative element is a thread I am keen to develop further .My work has also appeared as the cover image on the periodical Birding World.

Previous Exhibitions

• Byard Art, Cambridge
• The Southwold Garden Gallery, Southwold
• Harleston Gallery, Suffolk
• Mull Pottery, Tobermory

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