Kathryn Poole

I am a printmaker and book artist specialising in pointillist drawings of the natural world. I work primarily from zoological and botanical specimens using either drawings or lithography. The artists books I create are published under Old Bear Press with 2 other artists. You can contact me at [email protected] and more of my work is at oldbearpress.com

[mysharona1987]

[funonmars]

If you want to help out the Navajo Nation, please consider donating to them at the following:

https://www.nndoh.org/donate.html - Navajo Nation COVID-19 fund. There’s also a link to their Go Fund Me, as well a list of medical and community needs and numbers and emails to message for the non monetary donations. 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/nhfc19relief - Navajo and Hopi families relief fund. 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-elderly-on-navajo-nation - Food baskets for the Elderly on Navajo Nation

 https://www.gofundme.com/f/northern-dine-covid19-relief-effort - Northern Diné Relief Fund

https://nmchildren.org/ - Bill Richardson COVID-19 Navajo families relief fund

5/22/2020

[poguesgold]

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

[kosukeajiro-deactivated20210709]

Drown in power

[kathrynpoole]

I’m currently working on a drawing of a pheasant. I positioned it a bit to close the the edge of the page which is annoying but it’ll have to do.

[kathrynpoole]

Danse Macabre, 2016

Another illustration I created for my Masters project, Bypass Wildlife. I think this only took me 2 days to draw and put together. This animation was projected onto the wall and had an accompanying sound piece, the owl was projected onto the floor with another sound piece and the three drawings were framed and hung normally on the wall. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get any images of it all up together as the university building was broken into and they stole the projectors from my space.

[kathrynpoole]

The Earth was Disturbed at His Grave III, 2016

The third drawing in the series. I think this might have been the first one that I made though.

If anyone is interested in seeing any of my other work, photographs or the research paper thing I had to write to go along with this project please visit www.kathrynpoole.co.uk and let me know if you have any critiques or anything of that sort.

[kathrynpoole]

The Earth was Disturbed at His Grave II, 2016

This second drawing in the series, from my Masters project Bypass Wildlife. I really enjoyed drawing these and I think this one is my favourite of the three.

[kathrynpoole]

The Earth was Disturbed at His Grave I, 2016

Another piece from my Bypass Wildlife Masters project. This was a Mallard that I found on the road freshly dead that I revisited over the period of a month, documenting the progress of it’s decay. The bottom image shows all three drawings that make up The Earth was Disturbed at His Grave. I think each drawing is about 1m x 0.7 m and took around a week to draw, so three weeks in total.

I’m currently working on a separate set of pheasants of the same size but they’re bigger birds and I have to work my drawing around a full time job so it’s taking a lot longer than this mallard.

I have sold the later two pieces at my show but number I is still available for sale.

[kathrynpoole]

Revenant, 2016

This is a piece from my Masters degree show a year and a half ago. Called Revenant it is an animation of a dead tawny owl I found on the roadside and is the first piece of my Bypass Wildlife collection. I might start posting things regularly again and I’ve also created a website if anyone is interested at www.kathrynpoole.co.uk 

[blackheartpress]

Drawing another layer. In Switzerland, printing with Ernst Hanke on his 1904 Johannisberger Maschinenfabrik Lithography Schnellpresse. Working from lost stone technique, the stone stays locked in the press the entire time, is counter-etched and changed multiple times.

Thus me sprawling comfortably under the cast iron baldachin, Litho boudoir, adding a bit of text. If they’ ever make a printmaking tinder this will be my profile pic / vid.

[etchingwithaquatint]

Käthe Kollwitz. Beim Dengeln (Sharpening the Scythe) (1905)

[kathrynpoole]

Do you sell prints?

Hi,

I do sell my hand printed lithographs, they all tend to be editions of about 30 or so. Unfortunately I don’t sell prints of my one off drawings.

Hope this helps

[itazulitho]

Processing the lithography plate ¼ (talc > gum arabic > gum arabic + phosphoric acid, ph2.4 > drying) #lithography

[blackheartpress]

BHP back from the dead with this beautiful large format (40.5x26.8cm) woodcut of the crucifixion. Printed sometime between 1455 and 1470, the text in the British Museum’s collection (where I found this print) at one point suggests it may have been printed in the workshop of the “Bergwolken Master”, translating to “Mountain Clouds Master”.

Talk about a Dragonball-esqe name for a workshop. Maybe it’s not too late to rename BHP into something with a bit more gravitas or poetry.

Are there still printmakers on tumblr? Feels like all my previous followers have moved on to obscure fandoms or spanking porn, or both. Or is everyone just x-posting via Insta these days? I post to BHP since 2011, it’s still a mixture of research- and teaching reference and personal blog, and while my insta has taken over larger chunks of my printmaking presence, there’s a lot of things I dearly love about the tumblr format. Maybe it is time to post more here.

It is surely more fitting these days, the shops I run and teach in burned down over 500 days ago, with no rebuild in sight. Most of last year I was too angry or too depressed to post much, by now anger and sadness have mellowed into a comfortably leaden blanket that is ever present, but not too obstructing, a safe base to work from, in a way.

Further reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40hReAGpj04

[etchingwithaquatint]

Paul-Albert Besnard. Les Perles Rouges (1899)

[smithprintmaking]

Marks, Part 3 (figure/ground)

1,2. Kathe Kollwitz 3-7. David Shrigley 8,9. Barry Moser 10. Paul Landacre

[etchingwithaquatint]

Adolphe Appian. A Pond (1867)