Kay Watanabe - Printmaker

Kay Watanabe  is a printmaker based in Brisbane, Australia.

Kay's prints use a wide range of printmaking techniques, such as traditional etching, photopolymer plates, linocut, woodblock, collograph, drypoint and monoprint. She sometimes uses them individually and sometimes combines two or more techniques to achieve targeted effects.

She participated in numerous awards/exhibitions in Australia and internationally in recent years. Her works are also stocked at several galleries and shops in and out of Australia.

Kay also holds printmaking workshops in various places, including Bleeding Heart and Bright Learning both in Brisbane and Rosebud Street Gallery in Eudlo, Queensland. Her new assignments in 2013 include an Art Teacher at Koala-Gumi Japanese preschool and a Printmaking Tutor at the Art for the Margins (AFTM), an art group organised by Wesley Mission, both in Brisbane.

How do your create your art?

-- I create my prints using different printmaking techniques such as etching, drypoint, linocut, woodcut, collagraph, monoprint etc. I use these technniques sometimes independently and in other times, I combine them to achieve targeted effects.

What inspires you to create?

--nature, social and political affairs, things happening in my personal life.

What are your hopes for the future?

-- It would be nice to get my own etching press (a fairly big one) so that I can build a printmaking studio at home even if it is a small, humble one!

Name a few things that make you happy?

--Friends and family.

Who are some of your favourite Artists?

--Klee and Matisse. Helen Frankenthaler and Antoni Tapies.
Ah music, there are too many to pick one!


 All images are ©Kay Watanabe.

 Journey II
is etching and chine colle
size is 10cm x 15 cm

  

 Snow Country
is multiple-plate linocut
size is 47cm x 57 cm

 Thrust
is etching
size is 36cm x 50cm

 Paradise II, III, IV
is linocut and monoprint on hand-dyed paper
(currently for sale in the Gallery $190 each) 

https://www.facebook.com/KayWatanabePrintmaker?fref=ts

Now as Kay has not picked a song I am going to adda little clip of a very interesting way to make music.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot At London's Barbican