Fiona Hamilton

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‘Great Eggfly Butterfly’ screen print on Fabriano Rosaspina. Measures 20cm x 20cm. edition of 20.

Butterfly print from a series of photos taken at Bristol Zoo. Eventually I hope to produce more butterfly prints from this series.

Available on Folksy, Etsy and at Soma Gallery https://www.somagallery.co.uk/products/great-eggfly-butterfly

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Autumn Leaves artists proofs, printed on Bockingford watercolour and Fabriano Rosaspina. Each print measures approx 50cm x 35cm.

I created a series of colour test prints for my Autumn Leaves series, working on a larger scale to usual. The layers were created by gouache paint on true grain and posca pen for the drawing.

These prints are all available at Soma Gallery https://www.somagallery.co.uk/collections/fiona-hamilton

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Autumn Leaves - bronze screen print, 35cm x 45cm. A multi layered hand pulled print featuring metallic gold and printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper.

Available from Etsy, Folksy and Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/autumn-leaves-bronze-print

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Autumn Leaves - pink screen print, 35cm x 45cm. A multi layered hand pulled print featuring metallic gold and printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper.

Available from Etsy, Folksy and Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/autumn-leaves-pink

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Sycamore Red screen print. Edition of 8, measures 17.5cm x 25cm, printed on Fabriano Rosaspina in several colours including metallics with multiple hits.

From the Westonbirt Arboretum series. There is also an orange version which has now sold out.

Available from Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/all/fiona-hamilton/sycamore-red-print

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Sycamore Orange screen print. Edition of 3, measures 17.5cm x 25cm, printed on Fabriano Rosaspina in several colours including metallics with multiple hits. [SOLD OUT]

From the Westonbirt Arboretum series. There is also a red version.

Available from Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/all/fiona-hamilton

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‘Golden Puppy’ mini print. Hand pulled screen print on Fabriano Rosaspina. Measures 17.5cm x 25cm.

Available at Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/golden-puppy

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‘Kitten in Shoe’ hand pulled mini print. Printed on Fabriano Rosaspina in an edition of 25. Measures 20cm x 25cm.

Available at Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/kitten-in-shoe-print

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‘Robin’ hand pulled mini print in 3 colours onto Bockingford textured watercolour paper. Measures 20cm x 25cm.

Available at Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/robin-mini-print

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‘Robin’ hand pulled 7 colour screen print in an edition of 20. Measures 25cm x 35cm and printed on hand torn Fabriano Rosaspina.

Hand painted and drawn layers from original photograph.

Available to buy at Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/robin-print

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Buy My Prints!

You can now buy prints from me from these 3 places:

Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/all/fiona-hamilton

Folksy https://folksy.com/shops/fionahamilton

Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/FionaHamiltonPrints

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Here’s a few snapshots of some Robins from before Christmas (Christmas cards and prints) and a small running dog edition on the drying rack.

Printing will commence again shortly!

All of these prints can be bought from Soma Gallery’s Bristol shop. (Not currently available online.)

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‘Dog on the Beach’ five colour screen print in an edition of 20. Measures 28cm x 38cm and printed onto Bockingford Watercolour paper. 

Hand painted layers and posca. From original photograph by me.

Trying out screen printing with Bockingford and very happy with the result. The texture gives a nice effect.

Availble to buy from Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/dog-on-the-beach-print

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’Black Headed Gull’ five colour screen print in an edition of 20. Printed on hand torn 25cm x 35cm Fabriano Rosaspina.

The second print in my bird series. Experimenting a little with over laying colours. Again, all the separations are hand painted with gouache or drawn with a posca fine line.

This was from an original photograph taken in a beer garden of a pub near to Worth Matravers a few years ago.

Available to buy from Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/black-headed-gull

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‘Seagull in Clover’ six colour screen print in an edition of 20. Printed on hand torn 25cm x 35cm Fabriano Rosapina. 

The orange clover layer has some gold in the ink and has a nice subtle shimmer which can’t be seen in the photograph.

The layers are all hand painted using true grain and gouache washes. The line drawing is posca fine line on acetate.

I prefer this way of working over using photoshop and think the effect is nicer. It’s also more like the kind of thing I was doing before I stopped making work a few years ago, but more grown up!

The original photograph used as reference was taken on holiday in Ireland a few years ago. I have many photographs from this and subsequent trips and will create a series working in this way.

Available to buy from Soma Gallery http://www.soma.gallery/seagull-in-clover-print

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‘Kite’ a six colour screen print in an edition of 12. Printed to the edges on hand torn 35cm x 50cm Fabriano Rosapina.

Finally I got my photo emulsion to work and created this screen print. It features a silver layer over the blue to create a really blue sky. The outline is hand drawn and the coloured areas are created using vectors in photoshop. The clouds are halftones printed in white on top of the silver. The silver layer is printed off registration by approx 5mm, this allows the blue underneath to show through a bit and give a bit more depth to the print.

I've tried to show the shine in this photo which isn’t that easy! The print looks different in different lights and at different angles.

Unfortunately the amount of pigment in the silver clogged the screen a bit so the second half of the edition doesn’t have the crisp smooth silver layer. Although I quite like this effect as it allows the blue layer underneath to show through a bit more!

(I have used this technique in another print I created but I added some gloss medium to the ink which made the silver far less dense. Unfortunately the gloss medium was very old with an odd smell and made the ink curdle a little bit but being less dense it didn’t clog the screen and went down over the blue layer much easier. However this particular unshown print has sold rather well!). 

Available to buy from Soma Gallery’s Bristol shop. Not currently available online.

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First two images are ‘Rose Leaves’ direct contact cyanotype with pale olive green screen print detail onto A4 Fedrigoni Tintoretto Crystal Salt paper. This paper gives a really lovely shade of blue which is hard to capture in a photograph. 

This paper is REALLY nice but it’s very white so may not be suitable for mounting. I’m limited with mount card choice as cyanotypes require unbuffered mount board and there’s a limited amount of colours. Texture-wise it’s quite similar to the Bockingford anyway.

The second two images are ‘Rose Leaves II’ which is again a direct contact cyanotype and the details are screen printed in a pale olive green/gold ink mix. This one is printed on 25cm x 35cm Bockingford Watercolour which is fast becoming my paper of choice. [SOLD]

I’m really pleased with these two images, the photographs don’t really do them or the colours justice but they do look great in ‘real life’ and look really good framed. I will continue with these and create a small edition. They’re more ‘abstract’ than I was originally planning, but I enjoy process and going in directions I normally wouldn’t.

One other limitation of cyanotypes is that I haven’t successfully exposed using the lights set up for screen printing. I’ve had no problem so far using the sun and have been exposing all my prints that way. Although this means I’ll only be able to create cyanotypes for a couple more months.