Artist Statement
Holly Jordan was inspired by surface details left by random acts of nature such as stains left by decayed plants on cement, rust marks left on metal and other objects that metal and water come in contact with plus lichen & fungus that live surfaces of other plants, trees and man-made objects such as wooden fences. People constantly battle rust and decay in order to preserve objects for a time to just eventually discard them for something new. Nature provides this remarkable ability to recycle and naturally dispose of organic materials such as metals, woods, and paper yet we persist in covering the organic with the inorganic then throw it away. She worked within a limited palette that included earth pigments, dirt, charcoal, rust, metal filings and graphite. This palette was particularly well suited to this series of work in that it is a physical embodiment of the themes she was exploring. She used a multi plate process including dry point in the creation of these prints.
Monotype was a perfect vehicles for Holly to explore these themes through the use of line, surface, form and texture by adding, removing and layering the images onto paper. She used organic colors in her work such as dirt, graphite and earth pigments. She employed Xerox transfer, dry point, and chin colle and mixed media.
Holly worked in mono-type & mixed media for over ten years and was a member of the California Society of Printmakers, San Francisco as well as a member and working print maker in Caren Catterall's 'Hot off the Press' stuido between Sebastopol & Occidental in West County, Sonoma.
Visit this web page to see where she worked https://carencatterall.com/studio/
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Artist Statement
Holly Jordan was inspired by surface details left by random acts of nature such as stains left by decayed plants on cement, rust marks left on metal and other objects that metal and water come in contact with plus lichen & fungus that live surfaces of other plants, trees and man-made objects such as wooden fences. People constantly battle rust and decay in order to preserve objects for a time to just eventually discard them for something new. Nature provides this remarkable ability to recycle and naturally dispose of organic materials such as metals, woods, and paper yet we persist in covering the organic with the inorganic then throw it away. She worked within a limited palette that included earth pigments, dirt, charcoal, rust, metal filings and graphite. This palette was particularly well suited to this series of work in that it is a physical embodiment of the themes she was exploring. She used a multi plate process including dry point in the creation of these prints.
Monotype was a perfect vehicles for Holly to explore these themes through the use of line, surface, form and texture by adding, removing and layering the images onto paper. She used organic colors in her work such as dirt, graphite and earth pigments. She employed Xerox transfer, dry point, and chin colle and mixed media.
Holly worked in mono-type & mixed media for over ten years and was a member of the California Society of Printmakers, San Francisco as well as a member and working print maker in Caren Catterall's 'Hot off the Press' stuido between Sebastopol & Occidental in West County, Sonoma.
Visit this web page to see where she worked https://carencatterall.com/studio/
Contact:
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