Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Bri Vermeer

postcard | Esker Lakes Provincial Park; Kirkland Lake, ON

Working through a new medium and process of image-making dictates that I acquire a completely new "alphabet" with which to create new words and assemble new prose. Like a grandmother teaching her grandchild to knit, my hands stumbled through stringing together coherent knots, stitches, and proofs as gentle hands of print know-how guided me to create these works.

“My first aquatint print was an illustrative postcard depicting the blanket at the front gate of a provincial park where my cousin has worked for two years. The blanket was hand painted, and the process of aquatinting was entirely new to me. I was able to incorporate my painting style into the line work and development of tone within the landscape depicted here, while also developing intaglio skills. ”