Rita Kearton

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Artist Statement

After Graduating as an art teacher I specialised in teaching children with special educational needs. I am presently working as a self-employed artist printmaker offering creative printmaking workshops from my home studio and in my local community.

I make imaginative, figurative collagaph and drypoint hand made prints. My images are based on personal memories, dreams or stories heard as a child. Less concerned with perspective, scale or realism I try to find forms to hold the feeling behind the stories being explored.

The collagraphs are taken from cardboard plates on which I score lines with a craft knife and add a variety of textures from everyday materials such as wallpaper, fabric and adhesive.

The drypoint prints are taken from Perspex or Crystaline Polypro plates, which have been scratched with a drypoint tool. Editions of prints are limited to 20. Each print is unique, varying in colour, texture and tonality as I often over work the prints in mixed media colour.

Previous Exhibitions

• Bircham Gallery, Holt
• Harleston Gallery, Harleston
• Buckenham Galleries, Southwold
• Gillis Browne Gallery, Harrogate
• Eastern Open Exhibition, Kings Lynn
• Westacre Riverside Studios, Westacre
• Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London
• The Gallery in Cork Street, London
  Art of Imagination Exhibition
• Williamsburg Art Centre, Brooklyn, New York
  Art of Imagination Exhibition
• Angie Mui Gallery, Holland Village, Singapore
• Blue Wing Gallery, Cornwall