The Cill Rialaig Project was set up by publisher Noelle Campbell-Sharpe, as an artist retreat on the Bolus Head peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The images in this slideshow reflect the time I spent at Cill Rialaig with fellow artists from Lecheile an Irish-Welsh collaborative project – Communication through printmaking.
Category: Painting
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Painting with Etched Element
Dark Horizon – Mixed media painting with an etched aluminium element.
Dark Horizon detail 3 
Dark Horizon detail 2 
Dark Horizon detail 1 
Painting on canvas with an etched aluminium element -
Copper plating mounting card
I’ve been experimenting with the idea of plating mounting card as a way to extend the life of collagraph plates. The process of plating the card works well and they appear to go through the press O.K. I have yet to ink one up.The plating process is slow, this plate took twelve hours. I’m planning to do some more work on textures and plating paper plates.
The plate painted with conductive copper paint 
It’s really not as scary as it looks. Note the low readings on the bench power supply 
View from the top show the plate and the anodes. 
Finished plate 
Close up of finished plate 
Close up of finished plate
