Artists

Frances Richardson

Shop prints

Frances Richardson’s first limited print edition is titled Sundog 030110 (QI: a sundog is a type of rainbow, a kind of mock sun made by light refracting through ice crystals thought to mark portentous occasions). Sundog 030110 has been generated from a drawing made specifically for the print process. The artist, known internationally for her tonal graphite drawings made up of tiny + and – marks, has used the screen print process not to reproduce the graphite drawing but to exploit the flat consistency of colour that the medium allows whilst retaining the precision of the marks. When stared at Sundog 030110 appears to disappear before your eyes only to pop back in with a delicate luminosity