Viky Garden - Works on Paper

Porous Bodies 1

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 7.5 x 7.5cm 2021

Porous Bodies 2

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 9.4 x 7.3cm 2021

Porous Bodies 3

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 8.6 x 7.2cm 2021

Porous Bodies 4

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 8.1 x 7.2cm 2021

Porous Bodies 5

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 9.5 x 7.5cm 2021

Porous Bodies 6

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 8.5 x 7.4cm 2021

Red Shoes

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 11.2 x 9.3cm 2021
Private Collection

Flygirl

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image, 9.3 x 9.4cm 2021

Moving into Wonder

Monotype 1/1
Hand transferred and coloured unique image in found frame
9.3 x 7.3cm 2021

This One

Pen on print
20 x 20cm
2020

YOU ARE NOT A PRETTY BLUE - Monotypes 2019

These 6 monotypes You Are Not A Pretty Blue marry technology and analogue, creating a form of wizardry where one cannot exist without the other. They reveal the work of my hand as much as they do of machine.

Water, the resultant marks and stains it makes with the printing ink is something I cannot control, the delicate silver leaf tarnishing with time, the odd bristle from the brush, trapped in the gluing, edges of paper torn and smudged… what is revealed, what is hidden, what is left…

Aspects of these monotypes mirror the way I am aging and changing – the strong, determined influence of menopause – a disembodiment of sorts from something familiar to a more altered/learned state of mind and body.

And yet, somewhere in here, caught in glimpses, I am still the girl I always feel myself to be.

You Are Not A Pretty Blue #1

Hand transfer unique single edition 7 x 5" print. Printing ink & silver leaf, 360gsm paper 2019.

You Are Not A Pretty Blue #2

Hand transfer unique single edition 7 x 5" print. Printing ink & silver leaf, 360gsm paper 2019

You Are Not A Pretty Blue #3

Hand transfer unique single edition 7 x 5" print. Printing ink & silver leaf, 360gsm paper 2019

You Are Not A Pretty Blue #4

Hand transfer unique single edition 7 x 5" print. Printing ink & silver leaf, 360gsm paper 2019

You Are Not A Pretty Blue #5

Hand transfer unique single edition 7 x 5" print. Printing ink & silver leaf, 360gsm paper 2019. Private Collection.

You Are Not A Pretty Blue #6

Hand transfer unique single edition 7 x 5" print. Printing ink & silver leaf, 360gsm paper 2019. Private Collection.

Blue

Monotype 2019
Private Collection

Self Portrait at 57

Monotype/pen and ink 7x5" unique single edition artwork 360gsm acid free paper. Finalist, Parkin Prize 2019. Private collection.

Billy

Monotype 7x5" unique single edition artwork on 360gsm acid free paper 2019. Private collection.