Natasha Norman

Monotype prints done in my studio in Muizenberg.

A collection of monotype prints made during 2019.

A series of monotype prints exploring sensations below the surface.

Works on paper including watercolour monotype and mokuhanga woodblock printing.

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An exploration of transience, process, and surface
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Varnished watercolour paintings on primed board.

New mokuhanga woodcuts after an amazing residency in Japan.
To find out about the print technique, please follow this link here to a video produced by Christie’s.

Inspired by my residency at Artist Proof Studios last year I have been developing a new body of works using the Watercolour Monotype process. Repeated printing - involving a careful process of registration - enables me to evolve a delicately painted layering of accumulative marks in works that reflect upon the landscape tradition.

After an amazing residency in Japan, these are water colour woodblock prints I’ve been making in my studio in Cape Town using the Mokuhanga technique.
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Mostly large-scale works made by running a flat surface painted with lithographic ink through an etching press. All works are once-off images owing to the nature of the print technique.

A collaboration with printmaster, Sara Verity, at Artist Proof Studios, Johanneburg. My first introduction to Watercolour monotypes and an experimental lino cut inspired by aerial views of Southern African landscapes I’ve visited.

A traditional Japanese printing technique dating from the 1800s where ink is applied directly to a fish.

A selection of experimental prints made on a one month residency in Japan (May 2014). My first introduction to Mokuhanga printing.

‘Wake’ is a work in progress that emerged from a fascination with the carved wooden matrix of the woodblock. The work seeks to emulate an existing wooden floor that is carved to evoke the gentle wake of an ocean wave at the point at which it begins to retreat back down the sandy shore - a moment that has for me always resonated with a living being, breathing.

A maquette of the work was first exhibited at Commune 1 Gallery’s group show ‘Salvo’ in Cape Town 2012.

This print series is an ongoing project since March 2012. The prints are editioned only by the date of their printing and are freely distributed on public walls, in friends’ homes and exhibition sites that hold some significance to me. It attempts to define a new engagement with an audience, often unsuspecting, and has proven to be both a challenging and rewarding experience for both me and the viewers I have spoken to. Born of a desire to transgress an often alienating street environment, this project seeks both to travel and to forge a different connection with the often transitory viewers and inhabitants of urban spaces.

Print Series
2012
A combination relief and intaglio print series
incorporating an etched linocut technique.
Experimental prints exhibited on ‘Salvo’ at Commune 1 Gallery.

2011
A single channel video work filmed at the Cape Town Aquarium.
Exhibited with MFA work at Commune 1 Gallery, Cape Town.

Link to video clip

2011-2012

A three-tone lithographic print installation with sound component.
Submitted as part of MFA exhibition, re-installed at Commune 1 Gallery
and Michaelis Galleries Masters Grad Show.


Audio Component - Cicadas
Lacan’s Mirror at Michaelis Galleries - installation views