Engage Artist

Flora Malpas

Artform:
Printmaker and Painter
Year:
2018-19
Location:
St Albans
Influences:
Currently: Landscape, Norman ackroyd and William Turner
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Project summary:
I am a Hertfordshire based artist working in print, drawing and painting to investigate a sense of presence and absence within the landscape. Using a largely monochromatic palet I create thoughtful, reflective works which tread the line between abstract and figurative as they attempt both to refer to a particular experience, be that a shipwreck on the horizon, a lamb’s tail in a field or mist over a lake, and to break down the surface to give a sense of ambiguity, uncertainty and flux.

Taking one motif at a time, I work in series to repeat and re-explore the composition. Working by hand and an engagement with materials are key to myway of making. From experimenting with the use of ground ash as a pigment to testing out the effects of spit bite etching, I push the potential of the material to communicate the fleeting sense of presence and absence within the landscapes depicted. 

Having always lived and worked in London, I recently relocated my practice to Hertfordshire to be closer to the rural landscape. 

During my 2019 AA2A Residency at the University of Hertfordshire, I used the print room to investigate the extent to which abstract mark making could be used to communicate a sense of presence and absence within the plate surface and printed image. 

I am a Hertfordshire based artist working in print, drawing and painting to investigate a sense of presence and absence within the landscape. Using a largely monochromatic palet I create thoughtful, reflective works which tread the line between abstract and figurative as they attempt both to refer to a particular experience, be that a shipwreck on the horizon, a lamb’s tail in a field or mist over a lake, and to break down the surface to give a sense of ambiguity, uncertainty and flux.

Taking one motif at a time, I work in series to repeat and re-explore the composition. Working by hand and an engagement with materials are key to myway of making. From experimenting with the use of ground ash as a pigment to testing out the effects of spit bite etching, I push the potential of the material to communicate the fleeting sense of presence and absence within the landscapes depicted. 

Having always lived and worked in London, I recently relocated my practice to Hertfordshire to be closer to the rural landscape. 

During my 2019 AA2A Residency at the University of Hertfordshire, I used the print room to investigate the extent to which abstract mark making could be used to communicate a sense of presence and absence within the plate surface and printed image. 

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