Chantelle Shekyls

West Sussex-based printmaker, Chantelle Shekyls, creates original linocut prints from her home studio. A graduate in Creative Arts from Bath Spa University and with an MA in Digital Media Arts from Brighton University, she is also a passionate Arts Educator and teaches Graphic Design and Fine Art at a College in Surrey.

Her prints are influenced by nature and aim to communicate the ambience of the world that surrounds her by stripping back elements and focusing heavily on lines, contrast, shape, and space. Chantelle’s work celebrates the cacophony of lines in landscapes, specifically the intricate, systematic, and chaotic nature of tree branches. Her designs are derived from photographs that she has taken which are then simplified and manipulated using digital media.

Currently, Chantelle is conducting two editions of prints that celebrate these naturally-occurring patterns. The first is Winter Trees, which she is working on from the studio using a gunning press. The piece is a dry point etching based on a drawing for an open edition lino print she created in 2020. The etching encapsulates winter trees with their bare branches, creating a stark contrast within the landscape, highlighting the trees and their repeating patterns. Winter Trees will be released as a small limited edition of 20 prints at the end of this month.

The second project is Organised Chaos; an edition of lino prints that she is working on at home using her hand press. The print is hand drawn from a photograph she took in West Sussex and focuses on the discordance of lines and the fractal patterns involved with trees. Chantelle has intricately carved the lino using flexcut tools and has printed it in a range of colour ways using Cranfield inks on Somerset Satin/Stonehenge, or handmade lokta paper, to be released shortly.

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