Fernando Feijoo

Mugger’s Alley
Zinc Plate and Photoplate: Lithographic Crayon and Transfer, Reduction Process
Variable edition 3 -12 Runs
600mm x 800mm
2004

Most of the inspiration for my work comes from the experiences of travelling and observation of city life. The urban and cultural atmospheres influence the subject matter and style of my work. I also take in the cultural and visual history of the places I visit, and reflect the cosmopolitan lifestyles that manifest themselves in varying ways. I am interested in social class discrimination and the way people perceive themselves within society.

I use the lithographic process as it relates itself most naturally to drawing. I use a brush to paint on to drafting film with black ink before scraping areas away with a scalpel and tightening the image up. I like the marks that can be made from a zinc plate as they are rough and I can incorporate them with flats of colour printed from photo plate.

I also like to work with a reduction process on the plate, as it has a sense of uncertainty about it, with resulting mistakes creating new ways of working. This can mean taking the process into further areas and incorporating them with other printmaking processes. I am personally interested in the relation of the old and the new coming together.

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