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An english artist, currently residing and working from her studio in France. Andrea Ellis produces paper prints which are made using the same silk screens she uses for her three dimensional fabric pieces. Quite often these are one-offs; with the backgrounds mono printed or hand printed and images finished off by hand, making each piece unique.
GALLERY OF WORK
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Claire de Lune :
This is one of a "Music" series that I am currently working on; it is inspired by the Moonlight sonata.
The image on the "skirt" is actually the manuscript.
Ink and dyes and metallic foil hand silk screen printed onto Arches watercolour paper.
Dimensions: 73x45cms.
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Psyche :
This is from a series I made about Greek mythology. Psyche is the personnification of the soul and the wife of Eros, she is represented with butterfly wings.
Inks and dyes and metallic pigment hand silk screen printed onto Arches watercolour paper.
Dimensions: 61×42.5 cms.
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Intimology :
This is from a series I made where I merged female and insect forms to create new creatures.
The insect structures are also created from plant forms and invoke Art Nouveau, tattoos and body decoration.
Inks and dyes hand silk screen printed and monoprinted onto Arches watercolour paper.
Dimensions: 76×57 cms.
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After Stubbs :
This print is a modern take on the classical pictures of horses by Stubbs. The horse's skeleton is visible and the landscape has become digital!
Inks and dyes hand silk screen printed onto Arches watercolour paper.
Dmensions: 72x52cms.
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Deux Garcons :
This print is about androgeny, the two figures are identical but one is red headed and wears lipstick and a beauty spot. It is about the two facets of one personality.
Inks and dyes hand silk screen printed onto Arches watercolour paper.
Dimensions: 76x64cms.
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Liberty :
This circle of butterflies was assembled by placing them one by one into position using Photoshop.
Silk screens were then made for each circle and the image was printed onto a hand painted circle.
Some of the butterflies are escaping their fate as a piece of decoration by flying away! The butterfly also depicts the soul transcending death.
Inks and dyes hand silk screen printed onto hand painted Arches watercolour paper.
Dimensions: 76×57 cms.
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Ephemere :
This is another version of Intimology, this time butterflies are combined with geishas.
The geishas are printed with gold foil and shine through the butterflies, adding to their translucent, ephemeral nature.
Inks, dyes and metallic foil hand silk screen printed onto Arches watercolour paper.
Dimensions: 76×57 cms.
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Tao :
This is a fantasy figure evoking exotic places, flowers and texture merge with the face to create an almost three dimensional surface.
Inks and dyes hand silk screen printed and painted onto Arches watercolour paper.
Dimensions: 76×57 cms.
