Artwork description:

This is a Gelli print using an item collected from a beach. The object is a plastic drink called TROPICAL.

The item makes an interesting item to use in a gel print, using acrylic paint to form the imprint of the object, whilst highlighting the reality of plastic rubbish and its throw away nature, but rather than in a bin, it is left discarded on a beach in Cornwall, ready for me to collect and dispose of properly after its use as a printing object. I can not escape the irony of a drink called Tropical left on a beach for others to pick up and dispose.

I am exploring heightened colour with these prints.

Materials used:

Gelli print on recycled paper.

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