Pamela Grace

Artist Statement

I am an artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, where the local landscape provides me with daily inspiration across the seasons. I started my career as a designer, training at the Scottish College of Textiles in Galashiels. My work is based on drawing – realised in pen and ink wash, etchings and lithographs. Sketches and larger colour drawings are often made on location and then developed in the studio, emboldening elements and using other techniques and processes to explore their potential.

Etchings
Etching using photo-intaglio printmaking is a technique which emerged from early photographic engraving. A light-sensitive metal plate is etched through the action of ultra-violet light, enabling a wide range of times to be bitten into the plate.

The plate is then inked, wiped and printed on a traditional etching press, giving each print a unique character, enhanced by the combination of specialist printing inks and the finest quality traditional printing papers. Some etchings I design to be hand-finished with watercolour paints.