Jane Rollason Printmaker
Fall
Fall
Even before the dinosaurs, there were ginkgo biloba trees. The ginkgo is a living fossil, has survived three extinctions, including the massive Permian extinction, and is the sole remaining member of its botanical division. The oldest known living ginkgo is thought to be 3,500 years old.
Like cycads and conifers, the ginkgo is a gymnosperm, producing seeds without fruits. As ginkgo seeds fall and decay, they smell of vomit.
Today ginkgo biloba in the wild is on the Red List, and is on the edge of existence.
Fall II
Mixed media collage
45x25cm, on mountboard, 2023
Fall I
Mixed media collage
43x58cm, on mountboard, 2023
This work features dried leaves from my own ginkgo biloba (planted 2011), linocut, etching, watercolour, collagraph, photocopy, acetate and graphite.
Ginkgo
Photo etching & chine collé
10x10cm, Somerset paper with Japanese kozo washi, 2023
A variable edition of 30 mini prints, some with chine collé, this photoetching is made from an acetate of a collage of drawn and actual leaves. For each print, I then ink the etched plate as usual, and lay the fibre-flecked washi over the plate before printing (remembering to put the glued side up!).
Selected for South Bank Printmakers mini print exhibition 2023; 43rd Mini Print International de Cadaqués 2023.
