Featured Artist:
October 2022
Kim Manchester

Site Specific | Coastal Impressions

Cyanotype unique direct prints & Cyanotype contact prints, limited edition of 10

What drives my  most recent work is that while I love using a lens to capture light I am recently enjoying more of  the iterative, step-by-step  process of making.  I am discovering how building towards something that isn’t preconceived can welcome experimentation and adventure - how the process becomes an integration of each texture, color, pattern - like fabric. Something cumulative out of small parts, not always greater than, but a cooperative effort that creates a subtle hand-loomed effect in the end.  Nowhere have I been better able to explore this approach to my art than with the Cyanotype photographic process.

Cyanotype is the photographic process that came to mind when I was traveling abroad with students this Summer as a way to connect them to the land and cement their understanding of exposure, history and process through experience. We made blue impressions of coneflower, sage, clover and blackberry in the sun of the Czech Republic. Later on my own, as I searched for my own connections to the land traveling to the far West coast of Ireland, and made my own impressions in blue.