Garhytteån by Anna Harley [2022]
limited_edition
screenprint
Edition number 30
Image size: H:38 cm x W:50 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:38 cm x W:50 cm x D:0.01cm
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Garhytteån was inspired by the river that runs beside my family’s summerhouse in central Sweden. Sheltered from the wind, the river water is often completely still and acts as a mirror, reflecting the surrounding houses, trees and sky. This print was built up from nine separate layers of print from a combination of digital photographs, hand drawn positives and chiffon fabric. I enjoy the tension and ambiguity these different sources create in the finished print. I am looking forward to returning to Sweden this July, to taking my morning dips in the river, walking in the forests, meeting up with my maternal relations and speaking my mother tongue. This print is currently in the RA Summer Exhibition
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Anna Harley is a professional fine art screen-printer, making prints at Spike Print Studio in Bristol. She has a Masters Degree in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking and lives in South Bristol. Her handmade prints are produced in limited editions, so each print is an original artwork, not a reproduction of an artwork made in a different medium.
She says, "the screenprinting process suits my practice, because it allows me to build images in fine layers of ink, printing layer upon layer until I am happy with the final print. I use a combination of drawing, digital photography and objects directly exposed on the screen, to create these individual layers. I enjoy the tension this creates in my images – is the print based on a drawing or photograph? Is it attached fabric, pencil marks or ink? While engaged in the creative process, I try to stay open minded about how the finished print will look, to allow the print to make itself – print is an extremely process led way of making art and allowing the unexpected to happen and taking advantage of these happy accidents allows the work to stay fresh and exciting."
She is inspired by how it feels to be outside, tree silhouettes, passing seasons, the weather, and the sky and how it changes from sunrise to evening. "I love things that sparkle and twinkle. I often use metallic pigments and, in a move that fully embraced my inner kitsch, I have recently made a snow print using white glitter. " Anna’s work is rooted within the Landscape tradition, while the fabric textures in her prints are an echo of her Scandinavian Arts and Crafts background and nomadic childhood.
Anna has recently exhibited in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy and The Mall Gallery in London and is represented by galleries in both England and Sweden.
To discuss works by Anna Harley please contact deborah@wychwoodart.com, or call 07799 535765 / 01869 338155.
