Medium: Mezzotint on Gampi chine-colle on to BFK
Image size: 7.25" X 14.25" on 15" X 22"
Edition: Each image printed in an edition of 10 in 2008
Price: Each print is $700.00 The suite of 3 is $1,800.00

The title,  A Thin Place, refers the “thin places” of Celtic spirituality. Thin places are doorways between the everyday world and the world of the spirit: any location where the veil between the physical and the metaphysical is lifted enough that someone might pass back and forth between them.

In this small suite of mezzotints and the related series of paintings The Veil Between a massive granite breakwater becomes a metaphor for the intersection of two worlds. A world where the power of nature confronts the hopeful yet ultimately fragile attempt by mankind to protect itself.  

I have long been fascinated by the earth’s thin places. It was only after I began this series of works, where the uncontrollable forces of nature press in upon this simple but imposing human construction that I realized that this location is for me a thin place. The ephemeral nature of fog also serves to force one to acknowledge the unknowable. Atmosphere both literally and figuratively alters our perception of things. It has been my challenge as a visual artist working in this series to wrestle with depicting an atmosphere that is in equal measure inviting and fearful.

John Petcoff of Lennox Contemporary, Toronto says of the series, A Thin Place, “The breakwater is also revealed in a series of lush mezzotints. Perfect size, intimate and mysterious the prints offer a light forged perspective, completing a classic, elemental expression of the landscape.”                   

This suite of mezzotints was printed at New Leaf Editions in Vancouver.

For more information contact Karen Curry  250-247-7464      karencurry.ca@gmail.com