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.
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