Connection as a concept is the foundation of my years of artist practice, of how landscape, plants and place are in an interconnected cyclical exchange with people. Explored through colour and light play, I find my work organically wanting to evolve from making botanical linocuts to experimenting directly from research material I gather from my sketch-walks. Where colour would take me on an inner-journey, the line would take shape of the outer-journey, emotionally recording my visual responses to being immersed in a particular surrounding at a particular time of the day. Transcribing my paint and sketch studies to print studies is part of the process of visually communicating the emotional language captured within those colours, lines and negative space. In the studio, my inking roller becomes my paintbrush quietly approaching the surface in a painterly technique, creating monoprint studies.
Winter Landscape I, II, III (monoprint print studies)
Summer Landscape at Dusk I (monoprint print studies)
Summer Landscape at Dusk, II and III (monoprint print studies)
As I continue to research and develop this body of work I may introduce combined printmaking techniques like linocut, collagraph and encaustic wax monoprints. For now though, I am nurturing the deep-dive into colour and painterly inking.
Mandeep Dhadialla | ARTIST printmaker 