PaperWEIGHT
Challenging the boundaries of paper
 

I use only good quality paper,  old watercolours, screen prints etc torn into small pieces and left to  soak.  Small  quantities of wet paper  then go into ex kitchen liquidisers with Procian dye powder, and then the mush  into suitable vessels. Layers of Newsprint with a pile of J cloths on top form  the' bed'.  With a gauze frame I scoop up thin pulp, making various colours, onto the bed leaving spaces and no defined edges, until it is more or less covered. At which point I turn it over and work from the other side slowly building up the colour and shapes. I keep the 'paper' quite thin as with the' Staircase' , screen printing the fine pattern of the iron work onto it, having dried and pressed it first. I usually finish off using  a spray fixative to preserve and 'lift' the colour.