Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Cobalt and Orange Playing Games

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About this artwork

Barns-Graham made three ‘Playing Games Series’ in collaboration with Carol Robertson at Graal Press and the title refers as much to the artist as it does to the colours and design. Robertson had suggested a method to Barns-Graham of placing each brush mark on an individual sheet of acetate which could then be reshuffled to create new combinations. This allowed the artist to produce a large number of different prints using the same acetates rather than having to remake them each time. Each acetate had its own screen which meant that many of her prints involved multiple screens. The artist experimented with the way in which slight changes she made to the colours in each print affected the colours around it.

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham