A beautiful selection of images submitted from around the globe in celebration of World Cyanotype Day 2022.
Artist: Katherine Gallacher
Title: “olccourt agapanthus”
Contact: www.brawartworks.co.uk
Amy Heller
Title: "Liminal Jellyfish”
Description: LED mixed media cyanotype on silk
Contact: amyheller.com
Dr. Mahima Gupta, Guinness World Record Holder
Title: “Celebration”
Description: My artwork shows some dancing forms. I have used mainly blue as it is the symbol of water and coolness which are the basic necessities of life. It is calming and I find blue as the natural color from the blue sky. I even used some hues of blue as they are associated with intelligence, stability and unity.
Name: Anika Gupta, 8 yrs
Title: “Brightness”
Description: My blue flowers in shades of blue look very pretty. My artwork makes me feel as if sky's the limit, and that you can never stop learning.
Artist: Phyllis Schwartz
Title: “On Edge”
Description: Wet cyanotype process with turmeric and saffron; substrate: Procion dye drawing on watercolour paper. Inspiration: a carpet of fallen Camilla blooms on my garden path, an invitation for printmaking to capture the joy of springtime; how enlightening it was to be greeted this way, this morning.
Contact: http://sassamatt.com
Artist: Sógor András
Title: “Time is Over”
Description: 4x5" analog negative film, scanned, digital negative processed with Peter Mrhar's EDN method, printed on Fixxons foil, then Canson Montval 300 g/m2 paper coated with Dr. Ware's New cyanotype formula, printed with DIY UV printer, dried print resoaked, toned with elderberry tea.
Dimensions: 370x300 mm
Artist: Nathalie Kopp
Title: “Red Ice, Ice States, Sermilk”
Description: It is a drawn cartography of the Sermilik Fjord, with the inclusion of a photograph of the Sermilik, cyanotype print in the sun on Fontaine watercolor paper 300 gr. Size 48/60 cm
Contact: http://www.rougebanquise.com
Artist: Kalina Milanova
Title: “A Mirror”
Description: The work is made with a photogram on watercolor paper. The main thing about every artist is that we all carefully observe the things that surround us. Our sensitivity allows us to penetrate deeply into matter. Our attempts to better understand the world and ourselves change us visually. Who are we? The human face says it all. Reflects the contents of our mind and heart.
Artist: Liberty Feist
Title: "The Brighter the Light, the Darker the Shadow"
Description: A photogram of deconstructed flowers, exposed over various layers of sensitiser.
Contact: www.libertyfeist.com
Artist: Jennie Hollier
Title: Residuum No.2”
Description: Digital transparency. Inspired by my ongoing fascination with degrees of transparency and light.
Contact: https://www,lupella.com
IG: : @jhollierart
Artist: Caroline Stealey
Title: “Spring Light”
Description: A photogram of pressed Bluebell and Snowdrop flowers on watercolour paper treated with Cyanotype mixture which was sponged on in layers.
Artist: Community Member
(Educator: Suzanne Morlock, Jackson Hole Public Art)
Title: "Flags of Hope: for a Greener Future"
Description: This is an image from a 4 month long community project where community members were invited to make cyanotype prints of fabric 12" x 12" to be added to a collection of flags to be flown around town inspiring us to think about greener options. Over 140 flags were made from age 4 and up! Prepared fabric was given to participants with a variety of options for making their unique print from found objects, cut outs and drawings they made, plant material etc., exposed to sun and washed!
Contact: suzannemorlock.com
Artist: Community Member
(Educator: Suzanne Morlock, Jackson Hole Public Art)
Title: "Flags of Hope: for a Greener Future"
Description: This is an image from a 4 month long community project where community members were invited to make cyanotype prints of fabric 12" x 12" to be added to a collection of flags to be flown around town inspiring us to think about greener options. Over 140 flags were made from age 4 and up! Prepared fabric was given to participants with a variety of options for making their unique print from found objects, cut outs and drawings they made, plant material etc., exposed to sun and washed!
Contact: suzannemorlock.com
Artist: Community Member
(Educator: Suzanne Morlock, Jackson Hole Public Art)
Title: "Flags of Hope: for a Greener Future"
Description: This is an image from a 4 month long community project where community members were invited to make cyanotype prints of fabric 12" x 12" to be added to a collection of flags to be flown around town inspiring us to think about greener options. Over 140 flags were made from age 4 and up! Prepared fabric was given to participants with a variety of options for making their unique print from found objects, cut outs and drawings they made, plant material etc., exposed to sun and washed!
Contact: suzannemorlock.com
Artist: Community Member
(Educator: Suzanne Morlock, Jackson Hole Public Art)
Title: "Flags of Hope: for a Greener Future"
Description: This is an image from a 4 month long community project where community members were invited to make cyanotype prints of fabric 12" x 12" to be added to a collection of flags to be flown around town inspiring us to think about greener options. Over 140 flags were made from age 4 and up! Prepared fabric was given to participants with a variety of options for making their unique print from found objects, cut outs and drawings they made, plant material etc., exposed to sun and washed!
Contact: suzannemorlock.com
Artist: Community Member
(Educator: Suzanne Morlock, Jackson Hole Public Art)
Title: "Flags of Hope: for a Greener Future"
Description: This is an image from a 4 month long community project where community members were invited to make cyanotype prints of fabric 12" x 12" to be added to a collection of flags to be flown around town inspiring us to think about greener options. Over 140 flags were made from age 4 and up! Prepared fabric was given to participants with a variety of options for making their unique print from found objects, cut outs and drawings they made, plant material etc., exposed to sun and washed!
Contact: suzannemorlock.com
Artist: Community Member
(Educator: Suzanne Morlock, Jackson Hole Public Art)
Title: "Flags of Hope: for a Greener Future"
Description: This is an image from a 4 month long community project where community members were invited to make cyanotype prints of fabric 12" x 12" to be added to a collection of flags to be flown around town inspiring us to think about greener options. Over 140 flags were made from age 4 and up! Prepared fabric was given to participants with a variety of options for making their unique print from found objects, cut outs and drawings they made, plant material etc., exposed to sun and washed!
Contact: suzannemorlock.com
Artist: Christelle Camus
Title: “The Escape”
Description: A video of starlings was projected on a bedspread and photographed. An internegative was then made from the photo and used on this page to create a cyanotype print. The idea here is to oppose the theme of the page ("the trap manufacturers") and the shadows of birds flying away.
Contact: http://boucli.tumblr.com
Lubomir Vassilev / LAVA
Title: “Sunset”
Description: Contact Cyanotype print from AGFA Synchro Box camera B&W Negative.
Artist: Julie McMahon
Title: “Woodland Walks”
Description: This is a botanical photogram on A3 watercolour paper celebrating local late summer plant life found on numerous woodland walks.
Wet cyanotype process with spray of cider vinegar, drops of lemon juice and layer of soap bubbles before exposing in late summer sunlight for over 3 hours.
Inspiration for this image is to acknowledge the luxury of being able to spend time getting lost in nature and for me particularly wandering through woodlands. It somehow always magically makes things lighter, clearer, simpler.
Contact: www.mcfingerprints.com
Artist: Ronald D. Butler
Title: "Come to what they want of you #3"
Description: My cyanotype was done on pre-coated paper using a digital negative that was an enlargement of a 35mm negative. This is part of a series exploring choice in relation to women's lives.
Artist: Patty Gordon
Title: "Eternity in Bloom"
Description: Anemone blanda, wet cyanotype. Top 1/3 of image bleached with soda ash and resensitized to mimic pollen. Gold watercolor pen used to enhance some pollen grains.
Artist: Ena Castillo
Title: “Body of Light”
Description: This is a cyanotype using a mannequin and fabric against a sheet of paper with ammonium iron(III) citrate + potassium ferricyanide. Then put to UV light for about 15 minutes under sun of Miami, Fl.
Artist: Janet Fine
Title: "Theory Growth"
Description: This diptych is a result of playing with wet cyanotypes for the first time.
Artist: Adam Evans
Title: "Birds Of A Feather: Blue Tit"
Description: "This piece was created using wet cyanotype techniques combine with simple line illustration"
Contact: https://www.adamtheartist1.com/
Artist: Alina Vuxanovici
Title: THUJA
Description: Photogram on watercolor paper, 300g, 25% cotton. I used double coating with the AB emulsion. After drying in the dark, I put some thuja leaves and left it in the hot midday sun for 15 minutes.
I washed it with 900 ml water + 50 ml hydrogen peroxide.
Contact: https://alinavuxanovici.com
Dymphna Vandenabeele
Title: “Her Favorite Place”
Description: I printed the picture (black and white film) on transparency film and used this as a negative. After the cyanotype process I let it rest for 6 hours in green tea.
Artist: Nancy Breslin
Title: “Impatiens”
Description: Cyanotype on Cotman 140 lb. watercolor paper, with salt applied when wet, then contact printed with impatiens. Aquarelle pencils used on the dry print to hand-color the flowers.
Contact: www.nancybreslin.com
Artist: Pedro Mendes Leal
Title: “Finally My Enlightenment”
Description: Cyanotype emulsion painted by brush on A4 watercolor paper, Canson 300gr.
Contact: @Pedro Mendes Leal
Artist: P Vega
Title: “Sparks in the Shadows”
Description: This piece was created by setting green foliage on high quality printmaking paper. The leaves created the effect of lights or sparks emerging from the darkness outwards. There is something subtle and mistic about it.
Artist: Maria Azul
Title: “Enlightened”
Description: This image is printed on paper, and it is a cyanotype made by a digital negative, then toned with black tea and coffee.
Contact: www.mariaazul.pt
Artist: Karen Buck-Mackintosh
Title: “Snakerail Winter Structure #20"
Description: I shot this image from the north border fence on my property in winter to capture the blue shadows on the white snow with the intent to print as cyanotype. The pioneer settler fence intrigued me with its beauty and with its historical record of local history and the human need to delineate boundaries and borders for ownership and security. I printed digital, high contrast, transparency negatives as mirror images to contact print on BFK Rives paper. The mirror image was to provoke an enlightened symbol of the structure.
Contact: www.buckmackintosh.com
Artist: Sandrine Lüdge
Title: “On the Way to Heaven”
Description: Paper silhouette cut out, chiseled plate, sand and masking tape on coated paper. 5mn exposure at 2pm.
Contact: Poesie de papier
Artist: Lynn Pattison
Title: "Bible: 2022"
Description: "Bible: 2022" is part of my work in an ongoing writers/artists collaborative related to the theme of Photosynthesis. With what we have come to understand about our world, I think we require a new "good book" to guide us. I decided to try printing on pages of an old book (about the Bible) to see what the results might be. I was pleased with this.
FB: Lynn Pattison
Artist: Karen Carson
Title: " Where Light Leads”
Description: This diptych was made from digital negatives, printed on 90 lb watercolor paper, and exposed in the sun for 2 minutes!
Contact: @ Pinholemama, @ Summitoaks4
Christina Yasmin Fesmire
Title: “Believe”
Description: 11" x 8.5" Cyanotype on Fabric
Contact: christinayasminfesmire@gmail.com
Website- studioarteur.com
IG- @christina_fesmire, @studio_arteur
FB- Christina Yasmin Fesmire
Artist: Vincent Sebastian
Title: "Blue Eyes"
Artist: Pablo Tesoriere
Title: “Under the Sea”
Description: Photograph taken underwater in digital format and then converted into a slide to carry out the cyanotype. This work investigates the relationship that the human body has with water, earth and air.
Artist: Roxanne Lasky
Title: “Know Thyself”
Description: Contact Printed onto Cotton Fabric treated with Cyanotype Solution. Inspired by an accidental double exposure made using a vintage Argoflex Camera
Contact: www.roxannelasky.com
Artist: Shelby Graham
Title: “Palm Inner Core”
Description: Contact print of palm frond. I created movement and increased tonal range of blues by turning frond during exposure. Inspiration: Assembling a palm tree during the pandemic?
Contact: shelbygrahamart.com
Please see "ENLIGHTEN Part 3" for more.
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