Caroline Thorington

Portrait of My Studio
Stone: Lithographic Crayon and Tusche
2 Runs
380mm x 530mm
2003

I first became interested in lithography in graduate school. I was enthusiastic about printmaking having been introduced to etching on a year’s fellowship in Munich, Germany. On my return to the USA, I became intrigued with the stones of fellow students and I had to try making a lithograph. I became completely enamoured, from drawing the image to printing the final stone or plate. Best of all were the washes that suited my way of drawing. It was then I became a lithographer.

In Portrait of My Studio I chose to draw the familiar, the tools and materials around me in my studio. I hoped to catch the moment to savour later. The surprise was that I saw not only these familiar things in a new way, but a new image of myself as well.

Summer celebration #5 was a different challenge. I wanted to make an image that was larger than any of my stones. My solution was to draw half the image, print it on half the paper, grain the stone and to then draw and print the other half. My discovery was that the two halves stood as independent wholes. Instead of making one lithograph, I succeeded in making a series of eight.

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