“In London-based artist Rosalind Hobley’s expressive cyanotypes, flowers assume a portrait-like quality through varied textures and supple shapes.”
‘Parrot Tulips I’ Cyanotype Print Now Available Online at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
I am delighted that my print was selected for the leading international art fair for contemporary print, taking place 21-24 November at London’s historic Royal Arsenal.
There are be a small number of prints from this limited edition of 12 available online on the Woolwich Contemporary Print website. Price £320.
It’s also a great opportunity to see some of the most original and accomplished printmaking in the UK and beyond. The exhibited prints were selected from over 7000 entries this year.
When making this print I was inspired by rich, dramatic and detailed Dutch flower paintings, Robert Mapplethorpe’s beautiful drooping vases of tulips, and Oscar Wilde’s description of Dorian Grey’s Mayfair drawing room:
“Some large blue china jars and parrot-tulips were ranged on the mantelshelf, and through the small leaded panes of the window streamed the apricot-coloured light of a summer day in London.”
About
I am an artist making prints inspired by sculptural forms, whether that be the figure, or plants and flowers in still life arrangements. I use the early photographic methods of cyanotype and photogravure.
The cyanotype prints are made from large scale negatives, which are contact printed with specially coated paper that I make myself. They are exposed using UV light from the sun, or in my studio. They are then carefully washed, dried and flattened.
London Artist using cyanotype and photogravure
