Re:mark is an East Anglian based group of fine art printmakers

Jane Scrivener

My concerns and practice centre on the many ways in which we read or interpret imagery.  This pluralistic aspect of images, or connotation, concerns all makers of images, including myself, whose fundamental need is to communicate messages. However, this plurality can be exploited to create a sense of uncertainty leading to possible anxiety in the reader when decoding. It is this state of mind that interests me.

The trees I photograph and work with therefore deliberately contain anthropomorphic features such as eyes, mouths and genitalia, thus creating a hidden agenda of meanings. Critically, I examine the notion that all images rely upon the viewer knowing or having previous experience of such visuals. Therefore, connotation comes from the baggage in the individual’s minds.  It is this intertextuality that is at the heart of my approach, offering prints containing personal illusions for one viewer that may not be there for others...

jane.scrivener@remarkprintmakers.co.uk www.janescrivener.com Text and Images © Jane Scrivener