Creating Work . . .

In creating artwork I find I like to experiment with different plates as matrix using a variety of methods, styles and techniques in creating art. This can involve using materials such as metal, wood, perspex, lino, polymer, cardboard or organic matter as my matrix.

Caveboy with Dog
Multiple woodblocks and a pot scrubber, printed using waterbased letterpress inks

Oriental Dragon

Single plate viscosity print

Techniques can involve etching, aquatint, drypoint, intaglio, relief, viscosity, chine collé, embossing and woodcut. Using multiple plates with colour and often combining traditional etching methods with modern methods that retain the use of a developed and prepared matrix that can be inked in a traditional manner.

My work regularly involves a number of techniques in a complex layering of images to produce the final work.



Delta Yellow
Two plate viscosity print


A viscosity print involves creating a plate that has three (or more) distinct surface levels. The inking of the plate involves placing all the ink colours, one after the other, simultaneously onto the plate and then printing the plate in one go through the press. The term 'viscosity' refers to the differing thickened/thinned inks which will repel each other during application. This is a highly complex method of printmaking.

Each work, even as part of an edition, is an original artwork that is hand made from the initial concept to the final artwork.



All images Copyright © 2004 - 2010 Rosanna Jurisevic