Description
A Chew Magna Celebration Silk Painting
Chew Magna is a pretty village in the Chew Valley. I went to school here and have very fond memories of walks around the village during my lunch break rfom sixth form. The village has many beautiful buildings and this painting features just a few bits of the village that bring back fond memories: The Pelican Pub, The Old School Room, St Andrew’s church, Chew Magna Baptist Church and Crickback Bridge.
My paintings are mainly painted on pure Chinese habotai 8 silk with specialist silk paints. I start each work with a drawing on paper and then trace the image onto a piece of white silk stretched onto a wooden frame. I then apply a special paint called gutta, which contains natural latex called gutta-percha, over my traced lines. This creates a resistive barrier through which the coloured ink will not flow. I apply the coloured ink with a brush and use salt dropped into the ink whilst wet to created textured effects.
The finished painting is removed from the wooden frame, ironed to fix the colour in the fabric and stretched onto acid-free mountboard ready for framing.
You can see a time lapse video of me painting here.
The original painting will come mounted on a black painted frame – size 12 x 16 inches
