OONA GRIMES
British contemporary artist and
professor of printmaking at the
Ruskin School, Oxford, and the
Camberwell and Slade Schools of
Fine Art, London. Grimes exhibits
internationally and features in the
collections of the New York Public
Library and the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London.
Ink-wash and gouache This is a
delicately brushed ink-wash and
gouache drawing on hot-pressed
(smooth) paper. The image was
formed directly without first making a
pencil outline. It is one of a series of
fragile earth figures inspired by rocks,
each one iridescent and crumbly like
a weathered while oyster.Shadows The dark shadow of the
earth was made with a brushstroke
of ink laid into wet paper. Other
details evolved slowly using a drier
brush. The large space around the
figure has been cropped here.
Grimes presses her finished
drawings under heavy boards
to flatten them.How Clever of God #84
2002
22 x 30 in (560 x 760 mm)
OONA GRIMES