Description
The Trail, Park Wood Bisham Original Silk Painting and Limited Edition Prints
In the woods at Bisham in Berkshire there is a lovely piece of sunken trail which I’m guessing is an old cart track. The banks are covered in vivid green moss and it is a favourite spot for a friend of mine whose husband used to play there as a child imagining ambushes and excitement.
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.
Visit my?YouTube Channel?to see how my paintings are created and click?here?to read a bit more about me.
A limited edition giclee print is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. Only a limited number of reproductions will be made and each print is numbered on the front. Each print comes in a white mount and packed with a backing board and cellophane wrapping. The following sizes are available:
| ?Size | Mount Size (frame size required) | Actual Image Size |
| 40 x 50 cm | 40 x 50 cm | 39 x 29.3 cm |
| 8 x 10 inch | 8 x 10 inch | 14.3 x 19 cm |
