🔴 WINTER CHESTNUT by Fiona Hamilton

Drypoint etching

49.5 x 37.5 cm

44 x 32 cm

£245

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Artist Statement

Fiona Hamilton is a Bristol based printmaker. Her work explores the ecological sublime and an appreciation of the majesty of nature. She uses detailed intaglio etching, drypoint, lithography and chine collé to draw the viewer into an ethereal landscape that has an impact on our sense of place in relation to the natural world. She uses primarily black and white, often utilising the natural tones of chine collé, and sometimes layers of lithographic texture to introduce warmth to the stark palette. Often the harsh contrasting tones of black and white are utilised invoking a sublime emotional connection. She works from sketches, photographs, notes and memory to create her prints.

Fiona’s current body of work is based on the book by Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree. Trees communicate via mycorrhizal fungi to trade water and other nutrients. Ancient and mature trees nurture their offspring via these networks, as well as trading nutrients between other species. Botanist Simard has spent years working on this theory as part of a wider body of work, discovering what it means for forests, the climate and the wider Anthropocene. This theory offers the potential for positive change through knowledge.

Fiona has an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking from The University of the West of England (2023). Previously she studied Graphic Fine Art at Canterbury (2002) and established Soma Gallery in 2004. She works from Spike Print Studio.