About this artwork
For this work and Scorpio I, Barns-Graham used the sugar-lift technique to recreate the brush marks from her renowned paintings. The image is painted onto the plate using a water-soluble sugar solution which is then dissolved in boiling water to reveal the brush marks before the plate is immersed in acid. Aquatint is then laid on the plate and the acid bites into the marks made by the artist.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Scorpio II
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date created:1997
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materials:Sugar-lift aquatint on paper
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measurements:57.00 x 75.00 cm
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credit line:Gift of Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5402
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Born in St Andrews, Barns-Graham studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1932 to 1937, where she became interested in abstract art. She moved to St Ives in Cornwall in 1940, finding among the modernist artists who had settled there (including Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth) a...