Hynds Composition4 screenprint

Claire Hynds

Composition no.4
Screenprint
30 x 30cm
Edition of 25 (2/25)
2019
£165, £125(unframed)

Hynds Composition5 screenprint
Claire Hynds
Composition no.5
Screenprint
30 x 30cm
Edition of 25 (2/25)
2019
£165, £125(unframed)

Claire Hynds has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally and has work in permanent collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Printmakers Council Archive and the National Museum and Gallery of Wales.

Hynds was awarded an AHRB to study MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England graduating in 2002.

She is a member of the Printmakers Council and the East London Printmakers. A lecturer in printmaking at Morley College and City Lit, Hynds divides her time between this and her studio.

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Claire Hynds’ work explores the changing aspects and views one experiences when moving through an urban space. The viewfinder crops the landscape to present a series of vistas that explore the possibilities of constructing space to make us see the familiar in a different light.

Hynds enjoys the opportunity that printmaking offers to work across several layers in an image. This allows her to continually play and manipulate the work throughout the printing process. By changing the choice of stencil, sequence of layers, rotating the image, alternating the colour choices, and changing the opacity of the ink, new juxtapositions of forms and colour blends appear. Each image attempts to exploit the saturation of colour to visually distort the viewers’ sense of positive and negative space. In this way the choice of colours intensifies the abstract nature of the work, whilst also providing an aesthetic context to the images origin.

The combination of the abstract shapes creates a series of skylines, suggesting both a memory of what has been, whilst also proposing what might be. Each vista represents something imagined, something familiar, something remembered.