Jane Laborie is an artist/printmaker based in London.
Her current work is about exploring our rich, inner world - the subconscious.
She attempts to capture what lies beneath; the layers, depth and intimate relationship we have with our internal hidden world. Like islands of life attached by an invisible thread, they connect, break away, submerge, create boundaries, edges and brinks.
Paying close attention to dreams and our primal instincts, she starts off by producing a series of sketches using the automatic drawing technique with ink, charcoal and pencil and then uses intaglio processes, or lithographs her preferred methods of printing.
What lies beneath I - etching
What lies beneath I - etching detail
What lies beneath II - etching
What lies beneath II - etching detail
What lies beneath III - etching
What lies beneath III - etching detail
What lies beneath IV - etching
What lies beneath IV - etching detail
What lies beneath V - etching
What lies beneath V - etching detail
By the use of mark making, hard ground, soft ground, soap ground, scraping substances off and reintroducing them, burnishing, aquatint and acid baths; the etching(s) are intended to echo our unseen state of mind. On the one hand the image is identifiable, and on the other an abstracted depiction, revealing the contradictory and complex nature of our psyche.
Her chosen colour palette is pared back, favouring black and white and the graduation of tonal greys in between, representing the shades and moods that fluctuate in ourselves.
Islands of life series - Concertina book - ink
Islands of life - Concertina book detail - charcoal
Islands of life - Concertina book lithograph
Islands of life - etching - detail
Islands of life - etching - detail
Islands of life - multi plate etching - detail
Islands of life - multi plate etching - detail
Islands of life - multi plate etching - detail