Exploring Identity through art media

We had a great class with Vanda on Monday.  We were doing mono printing, exploring how identity can be expressed via a specific media, and how art as process can express that identity.  Most class members were doing mark making using a selection of colours.

My work was different (as usual!) because I was monoprinting with leaves.  I had been thinking about Aunt Joan, and how her daughter Allison had said she created planting borders, inspired by Hidcote and Sissinghurst, in single colours - a purple border, red border etc.  So I worked with a purple printing ink, and created a series of works on lining paper, which ended up with a positive image, a negative image and a combination.  This showed how the identity of eachplant was the same, but the outcome was dramatically different.