Barbara Rae

Barbara Rae is a Scottish print artist, when we visited the pallant house gallery we saw examples of her collagraph work.

The prints were titled Harbour Night and focused on the sunset in a harbour, she uses a combination of collagraph and etching in her work. The etchings are made on top of the collagraph prints to add an extra sense of character to the work.
The use of colour in her work is very important as it sets the scene and mood and defines the persona of each piece, the colours allow you to see what the artist had in mind when creating the piece.
I am using print techniques in the same way as Barbara Rae by combining techniques to create a better and more advanced image, i am also exploring collagraph, a technique that Barbara Rae has developed.