Memories of Location Series (Monotype print series)
Artist Statement
Memories of Location is part of an ongoing project focusing on the use of monotype printmaking to explore memory, location and myth within the Welsh landscape. The work is inspired by memories of different locations visited both through the past and through more recent experiences.
When creating the work I want to explore my own synaesthesic recollections and feelings of being within the environment through personal memories and experiences of sounds, forms and locations remembered.
The monotype prints explore the use of mark-making though rhythm, pattern, harmony and form to try to evoke a mood or feeling of the history and the collective memories of the locations visited through both the myths and environments of the Welsh landscape.
I have been inspired by the local Twmbarlwm myth of Bran where I live which is deeply linked into my work through the representation of the Welsh landscape.
The use of monotype printing gives the work a sense of immediacy through the process of applying the ink directly to the printing plates and working the image into it before final printing.
The work created is part of a continuing creative process where I am trying to develop a language to express rhythm and patterns of the landscape using different inking and mark-making techniques and processes.
Frank Aitken 