Description:
Rita Orr - Lady with Book
These are handpulled serigraphs, the silk screen process of printmaking. Rita's personal way of working is spontaneous, perhaps primitive to technical idealists of the medium, but it has served to establish her artistic style. In a one screen 'reduction' process, she applies glue directly to the screen to form the 'stencil'. Paint, specially formulated for silk screen printing, is then pressed through the open areas of the screen onto paper which has been placed under the screen. Thus, each sheet of paper in the edition is 'printed' one color at a time. The stenciling and printing is repeated for every color of the image. It is a laborious process that creates multiples of the image rather than one original, as in painting, therefore, the prints themselves are the originals. Rita's editions number from 10 to 75 handpulled prints.
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