STUDY TASK 3

Artists Who Work with Print

Sophie Lecuyer

Sophie Lecuyer is a print artist that I stumbled upon in my search. She works with all forms of print, but the ones that I find particularly interesting are her monotypes. She also does linocuts, engravings, etchings etc, she is a visual artist, a book illustrator.

I find these series of prints to be her strongest in my opinion. She sets a very strong tone and creates a mystical atmosphere with this type of monotype illustration. It is something that i am looking to play around with during my initial experiments on the print project. 

They remind me of early photography especially daguerreotypes. They are broody and mysterious, and depending on the story plot that I develop, I find these to be a promising source of inspiration.

Thomas Shahan

Thomas Shahan is another artist I find to be a good source for print, particularly symbolism in print as his work is riddled with it. There is not a lot of range of his work in print online. Apart from print, he enjoys macro photography, and takes inspiration from his own photography for his work in print. He really like spiders, like, really. I enjoy his loose and very textural monoprint self portrait as well as his very tight and precise linocuts. The linocuts are very much in the style of traditional serial print. I think he really does a fantastic job incorporating all these elements into his finely produced images.  

Ken Taylor

Ken Taylor is a well-known image maker, does work with screen print and digital screen print. He often re imagines or does limited edition re-inventions of movie posters and album covers. Really solid artist with the right mix of originality and technicality. Well jell, quality images. I would buy these prints any day.