Lucy Ward

Drypoint & Monoprint

40cm x 38cm

Framed

"Walking into the tiny chapel for the first time feels like entering a secret world, full of colour and symbolism, with angels and the tree of life arching overhead. In this print, I brought in trees from outside to echo the nature-inspired patterns and my own landscape work. I wanted to hint at the jewel-like colours and decoration inside the chapel, leaving it a mystery to be discovered, so I decided to use a two-plate technique of black drypoint over colour monoprint, to create an interior muted by shadow. This means that each print is slightly different, as the colours are painted by hand each time, reflecting the many different people who worked on the building. The open door represents Mary Watts’s ethos of ‘art for all’ and Watts Gallery continues to work with the local community today."