I had the amazing opportunity of visiting passionate Printmaker Noeleen Kleve and creating a short film on her work and teaching.
If you were ever wondering about Printmaking and what it entails – this film is for you!
Noeleen works mainly in intaglio, exploring a fascination for tactility and texture – focusing on themes of the land, spiritual-geographical connections and environmental issues.
More info: stateoftheart-gallery.com
Noeleen Kleve is a Printmaking artist based in Kommetjie on the Southern tip of South Africa. She teaches classes and workshops from her studio and loves sharing the joy of printmaking with others.
Working mainly in intaglio and largely with etching on copper and brass plates, Noeleen’s inspiration comes from the environment and humanitarian issues – both global and from personal experience. Texture plays a large part in her work and it is offset by the ethereal nature of yearning and mapping and a fascination with the land from above.
With close family living across the world, she has an experience of the yearning that is created by human migration and the paradox of being “in touch” through digital communications, but out of touch physically.
This she translates through the slow, tactile processes of printmaking: excavating textures, evoking memories and focusing on the in-between (or liminal) nature of etching through reworking, inking and printing.
Watch the film here (hopefully you learn something about Printmaking too!)
An example of Noeleen’s prints:
Image credits: www.stateoftheart-gallery.com
Search : Edition 3/12
by Noeleen Kleve
Etching / 34 x 17 cm
Yield : Edition 17/20
by Noeleen Kleve
ETCHING / 21 x 21 cm
I learnt so much about Printmaking from Noeleen while making this film – and that’s because she is a teacher too!
The other part of her passion is teaching. She holds classes and workshops in her studio with the aim of igniting a passion for printmaking in others and sharing what she knows. She loves the interactions with other artists and working through all the different processes that printmaking involves.
See more about her and her classes at http://www.noeleenkleve.co.za/
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