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IN THE STUDIO: KATE MACNEIL

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Printmaker and Spring artist Kate MacNeil let us come visit her studio or studios really.  She is a very mobile artist working between three spaces, her home, Redux Contemporary Art Center, and the College of Charleston print shop. Kate is wiping her plates used in the printmaking process at the CofC print shop.

Here is a sketch that Kate is working on before she makes her final zinc plate for an edition of prints.  Her home studio is where she observes and composes her still lives.

At Redux she experiments with painting, color, and different techniques.

Kate MacNeil is one of the Spring Season artists.

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INSPIRATION: KATE MACNEIL

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Printmaker and spring artist,  Kate MacNeil, reveals what inspires her work and her most recent intaglio series.  

FLOWERS AND BOTTLES

   Photo Cred: Brian Stetson

This is a recurring theme in Kate’s work. “A portrait of a hanging sunflower recalls a once fragile existence, just as a memory preserves the life of a loved one.”

GIORGIO MORANDI

  Fiori 1951, Still Life 1946

WAYNE THIEBAUD

 

 

 


 

Daffodil, Three Cupcakes, Tulip Sundaes

ETHCHINGS OF FRANSISCO DE GOYA AND JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS

Giant, Las camas de la muerte, Hokusai’s Bird and Flower Paintings

Kate’s medium for the CSA spring share is a series of intaglio prints. Intaglio is a form of printmaking where a copper or zinc plate is coated with resin and an image is carved into this surface.  It is then dipped in an acid bath that “etches” the areas of the plate that has been revealed from the marks in the resin. Next, the ink is applied to the bitten/etched surface and put to the press.

BOOKS: “I read a lot, anything I can get my hands on.”

“These are a combination of books I’m reading, referencing, and books I plan on reading next. I have them sitting on my work desk so I can easily get to them.”

 

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