 Charlotte Cornish takes her inspiration from images collected whilst travelling abroad, from countries with an abundance of colour and exotic atmospheres; India, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia. She also utilizes images from quaysides on the Suffolk coast as a starting point. This inspirational material is then developed and combined with themes exploring personal experience.
Acrylic paint on canvas is Charlotte’s preferred medium. This dries relatively quickly, allowing her to build up many layers of thinly poured paint, contrasting with directly applied gestural marks. She always waits until the paintings are dry before applying new marks. This affords Charlotte the opportunity to remove any marks that she makes, without disturbing the preceding layers. All of her editioned prints are Limited Edition Original Prints. Each print has been made from a series of Charlotte’s own hand painted stencils, one for each colour printed. The resulting image exists only in its printed form. There is no ‘original’ from which the print has been copied, as with some printing techniques. Charlotte makes prints using a range of printmaking techniques, mainly screen printing, but also etching.
In all of her work Charlotte is engaged with the exciting world of colour and colour relationships.
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