Studio Notes: Revisiting my visual diaries as drypoint prints

These are my first drypoint prints for decades - Akinesia and Goddess which I did today. My pet project is reworking a selection of my visual diaries over the past 3 decades. I wanted to do a series of prints, but it's been two decades since I did any etchings and I don't own a press. So, I'm incredibly grateful to printmaker Monika Lukowska-Appel here in Perth in Western Australia at the Midland Arts Junction who ran a workshop for artists in my area. The Goddess in particular is an image that came out of sketches for my painting Australia a Prophecy but in the end I went with a painting of the Dior model from 1947’s New Look Collection.

Goddess, drypoint print U/S on cotton rag, (giclee edition, Nov 2021, Carl Gopalkrishnan

Akinesia, drypoint print U/S on cotton rag, Nov 2021 Carl Gopalkrishnan