Merlyn Chesterman
MASTER ARTIST
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MEDIUMS: Printmaking
SPECIALTY: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Creating Bodies of Work ✔ Technique Demos
I will focus first on the basic skills needed to produce a successful woodblock print in black and white, looking at kinds of marks, percentage of black to white, fast and slow cutting etc.
This will be followed by making a two block colour print, using registration of one block in relation to the other. The group then opens up to include composition, colour, impact, light, theme etc in order to develop a personal voice.
Merlyn’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Creating Bodies of Work ✔ Technique Demos
Technical:
Color & Composition
Teaching How to Self Critique
Technique Demos
Marketing:
Shows & Exhibits
Business:
Pricing Artwork
Running Your Art Business, the Day-to-Day
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun.
It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.”
~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Looking back over my sketchbooks, it surprises me slightly that I have always had the same preoccupations- the natural world and its beauty, danger, remoteness, weather, mystery – whilst at the same time, coming from a scientific background, needing the physical rendition, of waves for example, to be truthful.
Increasingly, I feel a responsibility that my work should in some way draw attention to what we are in danger of losing. People want beauty in their lives. I want to share what interests and moves me, perhaps a summer wind or the reflection of a cloud on the sea, the colour of light shining through a wave, a little island, no more than a rock, emerging from the mist … catching the ephemeral. My work is mostly about atmosphere, what I see and feel around me. I am driven by a sense of excitement, and work fundamentally at an abstract level, with a secondary, literal surface. Even in woodcuts, as with painting, I try to keep my options for development open, to keep the process alive.
Shiko Munakata, the great Japanese woodblock artist, said:
“I want to strip my work of effects, until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block. This is very difficult but it is the only way.”
This is a goal I aspire to.
