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

Rosemary Catling

My work originates from a personal image, which is altered or degraded by scanning, manipulating and layering. The outcome is a digital print, a traditional etching, a monotype, or sometimes a combination. I use figures of children in frozen action, out of context, jumping fearlessly, totally involved in the moment. Only the observer is aware of the  possible danger. In the swimming images of myself, there is the personal memory of the actual experience. The figure is isolated in an unfamiliar element. Water could be read as a metaphor for life. Multiple layering hints at the  presence of the past within the present and the consciousness of the individual amongst the mass.
I have sometimes included clichéd symbols of the ephemeral like the rainbow or butterflies, like logos, to puncture the solemnity. A memento mori perhaps.

 

rosemary.catling@remarkprintmakers.co.uk www.rosemarycatling.co.uk Text and Images © Rosemary Catling