Out to Dry by Olivia Maney

CA$180.00

This artwork is an intaglio print created using a recycled tetra pack. After making, inking and printing the tetra plate and allowing to dry, I then worked back into the image with a wash of watercolour, and coloured pencils. This allowed me to capture the colours, depth of textures and light play that I wanted in the piece. I love an ordinary life scene, which is what I hoped to capture. Laundry on the line, snapping in the wind becomes far less ordinary and rarer as time goes on, but for those of us to which it is familiar, the sounds, smells, views and methodical rhythm of the chore can linger in our minds like sweet nostalgia.

Intaglio Print (Recycled Tetra Pack), watercolour, coloured pencil

8.25x11.5

Framed: 16x20

This artwork is an intaglio print created using a recycled tetra pack. After making, inking and printing the tetra plate and allowing to dry, I then worked back into the image with a wash of watercolour, and coloured pencils. This allowed me to capture the colours, depth of textures and light play that I wanted in the piece. I love an ordinary life scene, which is what I hoped to capture. Laundry on the line, snapping in the wind becomes far less ordinary and rarer as time goes on, but for those of us to which it is familiar, the sounds, smells, views and methodical rhythm of the chore can linger in our minds like sweet nostalgia.

Intaglio Print (Recycled Tetra Pack), watercolour, coloured pencil

8.25x11.5

Framed: 16x20

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Olivia Maney is a visual artist living and working in the Northeast Region of Saskatchewan, Canada. She grew up in British Columbia on the Sunshine Coast, before moving to the interior for her final years of school. Then hopped between the coast, Alberta and the BC interior before moving permanently to Saskatchewan in late 2001. Having now crossed the ‘halfway marker’ in time, at this point, she considers herself more a prairie girl than not.

Having been brought up in the Arts, Olivia originally planned to pursue a career as an artist. Instead, she put that pursuit on hold for a time while concentrating on community work and raising a family. In 2017, she decided to step back into the art world, and by the end of 2018 had transitioned to full time practice. She has been a curious observer her entire life, often creating out of opportunity; using any available medium on any available surface. Whatever might be at hand is considered a usable tool and an opportunity to create, and she considers her work as Exploratory. The places she has lived, her travels and the people she has met, often are inspiration or represented in her work, with touches of imagination and an illustrative style. Her wish with her art is to capture pieces of life and the world; little glimpses of the everyday that might be missed by the participant. Mostly, she would like her work to capture the attention of the viewer, ignite their imagination and have them wrestle through their own considerations that would move them to some conclusion as well.