Abigail Harper Printmaking & Art
Cape Town is just emerging from a devastating drought and a water crisis that almost shut down the city. 2017 was one of the driest years on record in the Western Cape and many areas were ravaged by wildfires. This series is based on the aftermath of a fire in the Glencairn area. The lush hills were reduced to a bare moonscape and slow moving animals like tortoises perished in the hundreds. What will happen to our world if climate change and extreme weather events continue unabated?
Drypoint etching with intaglio ink and oil paint hand colouring
Monotype printed on 300g Hannemuhle etching paper
Hardground etching with aquatint printed on Hannemuhle 300 g etching paper
Monotype printed on 300g Hannemuhle etching paper
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Isolde Between the Trees - Softground etching with aquatint
Drypoint on PVC
Drypoint on PVC
Drypoint on PVC
This small series was based on an photograph of my sister reading. I was experimenting with potential cover designs for a book on literary criticism. The author found the images too bleak so it was not to be but I enjoyed making them all the same.
Monotype 1/1
Drypoint etching on mylar with monotype
Dissolving monotype
An aquatint etching of a faded cave painting in the Groot Winterhoek mountains. I don’t know if the artist intended the head to melt back into the body or if the original head was washed away by the elements.
Hardground etching with aquatint and spitbite
53 x 19.5cm
Edition of 10
Softground etching on brass plate with aquatint. This etching was inspired by the work of Japanese contemporary printmaker Kaoru Kawano. Safe in the forest, the girl can remove her mask.
53 x 19.5 cm
Edition of 20
A series of works about this beautiful but unforgiving coastline.
Hardground etching with aquatint
38 x 53.5 cm
Edition of 15
Drypoint etching on mylar printed on 300 g Hannemuhle etching paper
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Monotype with India ink and oil paint on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper
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Drypoint etching
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Hardground etching with aquatint
Three layer monoprint of tidal pool swimmers
Three layer monotype. I return to this scene again and again in my work.
Four layer monoprint of Cape Point
Four plate monotype of Diaz Beach at Cape Point
This series is based on some grainy cell phone photos I took of young men daring each other to diving feats off the rocks at Queens Beach in Bantry Bay.
Drypoint etching on mylar printed with etching ink and oil paint on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper 1/2
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Monotype printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper 1/1
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Drypoint etching on mylar with etching ink and oil paint, printed on Hannmule 300g etching paper. Edition 1/2
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Drypoint etching mylar with oil paint monotype printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper 1/2
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Monotype with oil paint printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper 1/1
One of the best things about living in Cape Town is proximity to mountain trails and the unique fynbos flora, found nowhere else in the world.
Drypoint etching on mylar printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper 1/3
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The devastation of fire brings renewed growth and life to Protea bushes in the following season
Monotype on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper SOLD
Monotype of an aloe printed with India Ink
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The title of this image came from a line in Arthur Nortje's poem 'Your Absence'
Summer means
that days are long and in your absence searing.
Monotype with India Ink
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Monotype with India Ink
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Our family has a farm near the tiny town of Willowmore in the Great Karoo. The silence at night becomes a noise of it's own and the vast empty landscapes both calm and unsettle me. These images were all made in 2010 after a long trip to the farm.
Drypoint etching on mylar, printed on 300g Hannemuhle etching paper. SOLD
Drypoint etching on mylar with monotype, printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper
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Silkscreen image printed on archival museum board - SOLD
Monotype on 300g Hannemuhle etching paper
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Hardground etching with spitbite
Printed on 300g Hannemuhle etching paper
Edition of 5
Screenprint on acid free museum board
Monotype on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper
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Drypoint etching on mylar printed on Hannemhle 300g etching paper
Edition of 2
Monotype on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper
Drypoint etching on mylar with monotype
1/1
Hardground etching with aquatint printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper
30 x 21 cm
Edition of 10
Monotype from an image of uncertain swimmers, wading into the sea at Camps Bay Beach. SOLD
Drypoint etching on mylar printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper 1/3
Monotype with acetone
Monotype with acetone 1/1
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Monotype
This series of work is based on some photographs of an African Zionist church worshiping at the tidal pools in Simonstown. I took the photo from a moving train window as all the congregants in their white robes raised their hands to wave at us.
Monotype with drypoint etching on PVC
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A series of older work and experiments
Photo collage with found images from an early David Goldblatt book
Drypoint etching on mylar printed on Fabriano Rosapina
Drypoint etching on mylar
I created this monotype from a photograph I took on an empty stretch of dirt road in Namibia. Our car had a flat tire and even though the landscape appeared completely deserted, within a few minutes these three small boys materialized from a nearby village, followed by a donkey cart.
Photographs and monotype printed on offset lithography press on archival museum board 1/4
Hardground etching on brass plate with aquatint, printed on Hannemuhle 300g etching paper
Drypoint etching on mylar
Hardground etching with aquatint
Edition of 5
Hardground etching with aquatint printed on 300g Hannemuhle etching paper
Edition of 5
