"Reaching out" 1 (2025)Lithograph by Heike Roesel

The lithographs ‘Reaching out’ 1&2 are images of playful interaction of different organic shapes and colours. The abstract images are directly inspired by drawings I made over the years of colourful lines and shapes, where only the relationship between the different elements matters.

The edge of the blue shape and the crayon lines are soft, like the crayons they were drawn with.
Lithographic printmaking techniques can reproduce drawn marks in the most direct way of all the classic fine art printmaking techniques where processes are involve.
Here I have been drawing directly onto a rough aluminium plate and printing from this surface keeps the image raw and direct, like a drawing or a watercolour painting.
A friend’s comment to the series of prints made this way was: “… they [the images] reveal the vulnerability of the process that created them”.

I hope they invite the viewer to find their own narrative in this image.

The prints were made from 3 different aluminium plates and printed on acid free printmaking paper.

Materials used:

alu plates, fine art printing paper, printing inks, lithography press

Details:

• Lithograph on Canvas
• From a limited edition of 4
• Size: 24 x 31 x 0.2cm (unframed) / 18 x 25cm (actual image size)
• Signed and numbered on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
• Hurry, only 1 left in stock

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