Sara Bishop 1959-2022
For some twenty years Sara and I discovered, examined and used different methods. Collage using paper was an early favourite and Sara enjoyed making linocuts and small constructions. Photography was often used as a source and an inspiration.
Printing followed quite quickly, as linocuts but then photopolymer plates, which could be used for relief prints (which I favoured as it allows colours) or etching, which Sara favoured. Sara manipulated her photos on her computer until she was satisfied with an image to transfer to a plate.
While we made our own work we would discuss and sometimes collaborate. In 2018, to mark the anniversary of the 1968 Paris uprising we screen printed t-shirts of a poster I had bought at the time. A photo shows Sara tearing and gluing sandpaper to my prints of Sky West and Crooked.
Collage was an early favourite. The Vase uses cut, punched, cut and crumpled paper. Others had more depth, almost sculptural.
More shallow pieces were glazed, giving them the appearance of ceramic pieces.
And Sara would sometimes use photographs as a start to pieces, such as this workman underneath her window.
Moving in to prints with linocuts. The last is a computer image where Sara was playing with colour.
Sara exhibited St Peter's at the Salon de Refuses and the Chelsea Art Society in 2015
