Nicola Cowie - 'Floral Garden' Linocut 2/7 (nco042)

"Floral Garden" 2/7 by Nicola Cowie, 2024. 

MATERIALS: Linocut Print, unframed.

DIMENSIONS: 250mm x 330mm

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nicola was trained in Fine Art Printmaking at Grays School of Art in Scotland before migrating to Australia in 2005. She has moved between Western Australia, Java and Borneo in the last decade. Residing in different countries has been hugely influential on her work, particularly the native flora and the effect of climate on a landscape and its plants. Culturally, Southeast Asia has been hugely influential from a printmaking point through traditional clothing like Batik when manufactured on a small scale using woodblock printing. Nicola’s fine art practice has been centred around relief printing for its tactility and physicality. She has a love of pattern and repetition, with a lot of her imagery, especially fish, becoming a surface for pattern. Drawing from life and redrawing that image to a point where it is the right format for a relief print creates an image which is altered. The act of carving it changes it again as it is recreated as a physical lino or wood block, then becoming an impression of that on paper. The physical process of printing becomes a pattern itself, carving, inking, printing and repeating to end up with editions of an image in repeat. 

This item is available in Store at Midland Junction Arts Centre.