Jess Lolliot is a Manchester-based printmaker working across etching, linocut, screenprint, and monoprint. Jess flows between printmaking styles depending on her inspiration and mood, using a mixture of techniques to create her work, experimenting and often combining them to make her final pieces.
She states; “For me, there is no better feeling than being outside and finding a connection with nature, be it large seascapes or garden paths”. Jess describes her response to large landscapes and stone as “emotional”. She primarily uses etching to depict this response, working into metal plates to create pattern and texture that evokes what she sees. Taking stone as her inspiration, Jess recreates textures, lines, patterns, and shapes that she sees within them, reflecting the epic expanses of time and immense heat that each stone has experienced.
Her etching printmaking practice echoes her technique within instant photography, focusing on framing landscapes, asking the viewer look again and focus in to see different areas of the image and contrasting details, and zooming out to show scale, place, and landscape.
A love of colour leads Jess to inject plenty into her landscapes, creatures, and scenes. Her current series of linocuts makes caricatures of birds using bold shapes, sharp lines, and big, bright colours. “They’re more playful and fun and give me balance in my work, leading me to experiment and express myself,” says the printmaker.
Jess’ latest project was a collaboration with Vinyl Night Radio. She created a set of 6 screenprinted vinyl sleeves for a range of 7” Singles they were raffling off. To add an element of surprise, all of the designs had a mini print slotted in front of the record. Thus, the record inside was a mystery as only the bold circle in the middle of the various prints could be seen. Jess comments; “It was so much fun, and we used vinyl records as spinning wheels to see which design you’d win”.
Jess is still finding new ways to experiment with her printmaking practice and is looking forward to exploring new techniques. Her studio is based at Hot Bed Press in Salford, where she is also on a year-long Letterpress course, so expect to see more type appearing in her work.
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