Dark Passage Through Redwood Grove in Late Afternoon

 

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)

2020  

monotype 

10 x 10" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

I/I 

pencil signed, titled, dated, and editioned; annotated "Kevin G. Fletcher - Santa Rosa, CA / unique print in black ink in one pass from plexi on Somerset wht. rag" along bottom sheet edge 

 

soft white Somerset England 100% cotton rag 

published 

artist 

KEFL316 

$550.00 

Kevin spoke about working late at his studio when he noticed the play of light through the redwoods nearby. After studying the display before him, he created this monotype. He refers to his technique as working reductively (Black Manner) from a rolled-up solid black ink to which he applies his tools (cardboard or matboard pieces) to disturb the ink and bring up the light and expose the image. In Dark Passage Through Redwood Grove in Late Afternoon, Fletcher succeeds in capturing the solidity of the redwoods, the coolness within the shadows, and the warmth of the flickering light streaming through the forest.