Rachael Kantaris
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Rachael Kantaris explores the physical quality of etching, which for her lies somewhere between painting and sculpture.
The potential as a colourist to create sumptuous, resonating areas of colour, subtle delicate marks or physical corroded scratches is an ongoing adventure and creates her unique visual language. She loves the contradiction between the craft of working with the metal, and the very painterly image which she aims to achieve on the paper.
In this collection, several plates piece together to form one etching and the delicate process of layering colour upon colour and mark upon mark is an exquisite, often torturous journey, sometimes proofing for months, unearthing and then paring down an image until the magical moment that she finally gets it right. She explores a sense of place, a memory, her experience of the landscape around her in Cornwall, balance and imbalance, and the perfect poise of colour.
Rachael Kantaris studied at both Falmouth School of Art and then Brighton University, completing her B.A. in Fine Art and Contemporary Dance, and M.A. in Printmaking after which she travelled widely, working as artist in residence in studios in Berlin and Melbourne. She was invited by The British Council to exhibit and co-curate a major show of British Contemporary Printmaking in Manila. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and has won many prizes including at the National Open Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery. Her work is in many collections including The Bank of England, Bethanian Kunstlerhaus Berlin, The Ayala Museum, Manilla, and Deborah Roslund’s Permanent collection, after winning the most “Outstanding Piece in the Show” at Originals, The Mall Galleries.
She helped to set up and still runs the open access Porthmeor Print Workshop in St. Ives.
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Rachael Kantaris explores the physical quality of etching, which for her lies somewhere between painting and sculpture.
The potential as a colourist to create sumptuous, resonating areas of colour, subtle delicate marks or physical corroded scratches is an ongoing adventure and creates her unique visual language. She loves the contradiction between the craft of working with the metal, and the very painterly image which she aims to achieve on the paper.
In this collection, several plates piece together to form one etching and the delicate process of layering colour upon colour and mark upon mark is an exquisite, often torturous journey, sometimes proofing for months, unearthing and then paring down an image until the magical moment that she finally gets it right. She explores a sense of place, a memory, her experience of the landscape around her in Cornwall, balance and imbalance, and the perfect poise of colour.
Rachael Kantaris studied at both Falmouth School of Art and then Brighton University, completing her B.A. in Fine Art and Contemporary Dance, and M.A. in Printmaking after which she travelled widely, working as artist in residence in studios in Berlin and Melbourne. She was invited by The British Council to exhibit and co-curate a major show of British Contemporary Printmaking in Manila. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and has won many prizes including at the National Open Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery. Her work is in many collections including The Bank of England, Bethanian Kunstlerhaus Berlin, The Ayala Museum, Manilla, and Deborah Roslund’s Permanent collection, after winning the most “Outstanding Piece in the Show” at Originals, The Mall Galleries.
She helped to set up and still runs the open access Porthmeor Print Workshop in St. Ives.
Rachael Kantaris explores the physical quality of etching, which for her lies somewhere between painting and sculpture.
The potential as a colourist to create sumptuous, resonating areas of colour, subtle delicate marks or physical corroded scratches is an ongoing adventure and creates her unique visual language. She loves the contradiction between the craft of working with the metal, and the very painterly image which she aims to achieve on the paper.
In this collection, several plates piece together to form one etching and the delicate process of layering colour upon colour and mark upon mark is an exquisite, often torturous journey, sometimes proofing for months, unearthing and then paring down an image until the magical moment that she finally gets it right. She explores a sense of place, a memory, her experience of the landscape around her in Cornwall, balance and imbalance, and the perfect poise of colour.
Rachael Kantaris studied at both Falmouth School of Art and then Brighton University, completing her B.A. in Fine Art and Contemporary Dance, and M.A. in Printmaking after which she travelled widely, working as artist in residence in studios in Berlin and Melbourne. She was invited by The British Council to exhibit and co-curate a major show of British Contemporary Printmaking in Manila. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and has won many prizes including at the National Open Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery. Her work is in many collections including The Bank of England, Bethanian Kunstlerhaus Berlin, The Ayala Museum, Manilla, and Deborah Roslund’s Permanent collection, after winning the most “Outstanding Piece in the Show” at Originals, The Mall Galleries.
She helped to set up and still runs the open access Porthmeor Print Workshop in St. Ives.
