PRINTMAKING
Printmaking is my passion. Favourite techniques are printing with real-plant collagraph plates and gel plates. These are perfect for expressing a love of nature and a delight in the colours, forms, patterns and designs of plants. I love the details, and working directly with the plants themselves captures this. I see my art as a way of admiring the Creator.
Most of the collagraph prints I make form limited editions, where each print in the edition is considered an original work of art. This is because they are hand printed, and most have individually hand painted backgrounds. That results in slight differences between prints within print editions. However, some collagraph prints are unique one-offs, while all the gel plate prints are unique artworks.
Media
I mostly work with collagraph, linocut, and gel plate printmaking techniques, with an occasional foray into collage.
CONTACT DETAILS
Name: Jacky Lowry
Address: 75 Curramore Rd, Witta, Qld, 4552
Website: https://www.jackylowry.com.au
More About Me
I was born in Holland and immigrated as a child to Western Australia in 1951. Before finding art late in life, I trained to teach High School Science and Biology; married a geologist and accompanied him on the Nullarbor; studied little animals in caves for a Masters Degree; raised a family; cruised on a ferro-cement yacht; and lived for a bit in Indonesia. I went to art school in South Australia and Brisbane, graduating in 1998 and 1999. Printmaking and Textiles were my major focus. After much moving around, in 2011 I settled in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, living for over 20 years in Conondale, and establishing a printmaking studio there. And now I live in Witta, valuing and appreciating a best studio space I've been privileged to own yet.
The strong inspiration of Nature in my art came from the experience of a somewhat feral childhood living along the bank of the Canning River, Western Australia. Later came studies in science and biology, resulting in a love of scientific illustrations. These influences can all be seen in my artwork, manifested as a delight in the colours, forms, patterns and designs of plants, and hence my use of real plants to make collagraph plates and prints, gel plate prints, and the use of plant-based images in collages. After art school, and before acquiring my own etching press in 2004, printmaking was hard to organise, so I focused on papermaking, fabric printing and batik. (After all, batik is based on printing with wax!). But now, my main focus is real-plant printmaking.
