I’ve been pushing myself into creative “play” in recent months, to loosen up my artistic practice and push out of my comfort zone. Today I had a play with silk screen techniques, courtesy of a free afternoon workshop at University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids …. or Swansea Art College as most people call it. The screens already had photostencil images on them, taken from graphite rubbings of street metal – manhole covers, watercock lids and drains.
We experimented with overlaying different screens with different colours, occasionally masking out areas with ripped and folded sheets of newsprint. The colours were pre-mixed so I had to work with what I was given, which was probably a good thing as I had less to agonise about! It was random and abstract, totally different to the way I normally work. I didn’t really like it until the last colour went on and then the whole thing seemed to tie together.
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