Artwork description:

This is a photopolymer etching of two girls sunbathing in a river under a bridge, deep in conversation at Somersault Festival, Devon. I captured this perspective by looking down at them from above and made a sketch onto acetate from the photographic image which I then turned into a photopolymer etching.

The green was added using the chine-collé technique at the printing stage.

A photopolymer etching is a printmaking process where an image is transferred to a light-sensitive plate, called a solar plate. It is then exposed to the sun or inside a lightbox to etch the print into the plate. The plate is then inked and the print is made on an etching press.

Materials used:

Paper, ink and frame

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