Catherine Mc Cue Boes Visual Artist, Printmaker, Book Artist, Photographer, and Arts Manager.
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Light house girl, study for artist book, secret lives of girlfriends, getting ready for linocut. This is project between visual arts and writers. This image is version two.
Nine months, have passed since my darling husband had a stroke, I thought my world and his would dissolve into endless hours at the hospital, dreading each passing day not knowing if he would survive, walk, or talk again. We have returned to a life, different, difficult and at times heartbreaking, each day presents a new problem, sometimes I win sometimes I lose. The progress is slow, walking is tiring for him, talking is mumbled words, frustration on his part, he knows what he wants to say but can’t. As time passes we will make the best of each day, good or bad, the absence of friends is noted, only a few stay in touch now? It’s uneasy for others to understand that he is still the same man....needs friends..... Big Kate..my Albion printing press has gone, no doubt the first of many things to leave us, sad but necessary.
Another two plate wood lithograph, this image was processed using gum only, left to dry for three days, the results where very good when compared with the first image which was etched using gum acid mix on a pre milked sanded board. The other aspect of this process is the cutting out of areas of the plywood to create a white areas, which I liked. It has been an interesting start to the new year, been busy trying out different techniques for wood lithography and I am seeing some great works being created. The work so far are based on the Girls Own series started in 2018, the first imaged produced using Mokulito is inspired by Harriet, an antislavery campaigner and Clara, who is said to have created the Red Cross association. Both works have been produced by using Luna wood, two plates each and added chine collie. Some where printed as single plate edition and the other as a two plate colour run. The total number produced for both plates is 30, but it would have been possi
Catherine Mc Cue, Artist Statement WAR Games 2016 Its strange how first encounters stay with you forever. As a young girl growing up in a family with little interest in the arts my first encounter with images came from my magic lantern slides given to me by my grandmother. The slides where such a rich source of imagery and topics that I enjoyed them still. War Pig War Games, for children is one such set of slides, re invented and created as a boxed set, complete with artist book and contemporary slides. Materials used include, solar plate etching, embossed linocut, collage slides and text. First I started to redraw the images to set the scale and size I needed for the slides, these will be re worked and printed onto clear film, then mounted and framed. When happy, I reworked the images using Photoshop, to add textured and noise. As these would be printed out as transparencies the correct size for the solar plates, it w
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