Ben Lord : Fine Art: Cyanotype Prints

My most current work uses a process called cyanotype printing which is a photographic printing process. It involves coating the surface, in my case canvas, with a mixture made of the chemicals ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide. Combined this mixture is highly photosensitive and stains blue when exposed to UV light. I exposed the paintings to UV light with digital negatives from pictures of me working in the studio.

The paintings are based off colourful drawings i did of a character called "Mr. Painter" who is a creation mimicking the archetype of a painter combined with my own personal features to create an identity. These paintings comment on painting itself combining photographic process and painting to expand the boundaries of painting and comment on what identifies myself and also others as "painters."

These paintings, among a couple of others with be displayed in a charity exhibition in St Lawrence Church in Long Buckby on the 6th and 7th of September.