by ChrisHeirani | Mar 21, 2024
My landscape paintings are a way of interpreting marks in time and distilling them down to convey a story in symbolic form. For the paintings, I start with slabs of raw poplar panel. Renaissance artists used native poplar wood panels for altarpieces, recognised for...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 21, 2024
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 18, 2024
In recent years, Gardiner has predominantly created intaglio monoprints, a painterly form of printmaking in which each impression is unique as the etched plate is worked individually, adding colour or wiping the ink differently each time a print is pulled. Even in an...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
I experimented with Carborundum printmaking, another type of intaglio printmaking, to create a rough, textured surface on a laser engraved plywood plate. Carborundum is a type of silicon carbide, which is a hard, abrasive material. It is often used in industrial...
by ChrisHeirani | Mar 4, 2024
In recent years, Gardiner has predominantly created intaglio monoprints, a painterly form of printmaking in which each impression is unique as the etched plate is worked individually, adding colour or wiping the ink differently each time a print is pulled. Even in an...