New work by award winning printmaker Jenny Waelti-Walters
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In the Main Gallery On the Move - Jenny Waelti-Walters
Jenny Waelti-Walters is a prize-winning, internationally known printmaker and a painter. She has shown work in Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, Sophia (Bulgaria), Montreal,Calgary, Vancouver and her home town of Victoria. On the move is a show of singlepull, papercut, serial monotypes. Each print is an original work made on a press, (not a reproduction of a painting), and is part of a series. The cutout figures are moved on the plate after each print and they leave shadows where they were; in this way they suggest progress through space and, therefore, time. In On the move, there are several prints of some of the series, so that it is possible to see how the works grow, one from the other. This is an unusual way to make prints, which Jenny has developed over the years and it lends itself particularly well to narrative and to characters who are on the move. Movement and body language are Jenny's chief interests, together with colour and texture; her prints are very painterly. She finds people's backs, or bodies in silhouette as informative as faces, and she loves to depict motion. Reader and ex-professor that she is, she always makes pieces that offer the possibility of a story for the viewer to complete or a comment on the world we live in. Printmaking is a second career for Jenny, who taught 20th Century French Literature and Women's Studies at the University of Victoria from 1968 until she took early retirement in 1997 to study at the Victoria college of Art. She is a member of Malaspina printmakers in Vancouver, Collective Works Gallery and Ground Zero Printmakers inVictoria and coordinates the Scattered Artists Studio Tour In Victoria.
New work by award winning Vancouver printmaker Moriko Ando
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In the Whitaker Salon The Rabbit Series - Moriko Ando
Moriko's playful approach to the 'Rabbit' originates in her fascination with Lewis Carol's Alices Adventures in Wonderland. In the this case the Rabbit takes the stage front and centre. She has chosen the intaglio printmaking process and further adds to the prints using the Chine Colle process. This is a laborious process but the results are stunning. Her prints in this series speak to the child and the child in the adult.
Moriko studied visual design and illustration at the Shukuhawa Gakuin College of Hyogo, Japan, and upon graduation worked as a magazine illustrator. Since relocating to Vancouver in 1999, Ando has fully embraced the intaglio printmaking she first studied under respected Japanese printmaker Yasufumi Chuma.
As a freelance designer and illustrator of children's books (including Diane Swanson's A Crash of Rhinos, A Party of Jays (Annick Press, 2006)), her current work is rooted in classical artisan practices. "I've always been attracted to the raw feel of prints created by traditional techniques," says Ando. "There's a conversation between beautiful paper and the ink and the etched plate."
She has received many awards for her work and her work has been exhibited in international print expositions.
2009 3rd Prize "Open Print Show" Federation Gallery(Vancouver,Canada) Selected Print "7th British International Miniature Print Exhibition"(UK) 2008 Selected Exhibition "Fundaful Circus Show" The 14th moon Gallery (Osaka,Japan) Selected Exhibition "PRINT PARALLELS" City Scape Gallery(Vancouver,Canada) Selected Exhibition "5th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition"(Vancouver,Canada) 2007 Selected Exhibition "Artist's Chess Exhibition" GALERIE CENTINNIAL (Osaka,Japan) 2006 Selected Exhibition "4th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition"(Vancouver,Canada) Selected Print "6th British International Miniature Print Exhibition"(UK) 2005Honorable Mention "International MiniPrint competition in Rosario 3rd"(Argentina) 2004Honorable Mention "Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition 3rd"(Vancouver,Canada) 2003Semi finarist "Kodansha (Japanese Publisher) Picture Book Competition"(Tokyo,Japan) 1998Special Prize "Artex Contemporary Art Show" (Osaka,Japan) 1989Purchased Prints "Graduation Show" (Shukugawa Gakuin College,Japan)
