- Friday, November 28, 1997 — North Shore News

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Art-lovers seek Penha!

Layne Christensen
News Reporter

THEY may not have lined
up in the early-morning
snow like they did last
November.

But the crowd of art lovers gath-

ed at the Buschlen Mowatt gallery
Jast night was there with the same
intent: to purchase a Ross Penhall
original.

The objects of their a
were not the large colorful canvases
of local landscapes and urban
vignettes thar fetched from $3,600
to $5,400 apiece and said out with-
in the hour at last vear’s opening. Or
the Stanley Park that sold for
$14,000 at a recent charity auction.
But rather a series of prints.
Limited-edition prints. Full-color
lithographs, signed and nu
by the artist, cach one cla
original.

“Original” se : is no
painting of the prints are a
copy. Original because the image
was conceived by the artist as a print
and executed solely as such. Original
because cach print is inked and
pulled individually through a pr

It is a laborious process and

NEWS photos Terry Peters

PRINTMAKING is a collaborative process says artist Ross
Penhall (left) who reviews a test print with Manuel! Lau.

not to be confused with the all-too
common practice of copying an
original work of art, reproducing it
by phoro-mechanical means and
passing off what some artists may
cal! a “photo-lithograph” or a
“print” what educated art dealers
know to be a reproduction. These
are nothing more than fancy photo-
copies, says one dealer. Robert

Bateman is among artists who have
some under intense scrutiny for
ine signed reproductions and

saploits the ignorance of the
: art buyer,” as chronicled by
ight article last

Mis prints are not “poster
Torrie Groening, widely
regarded in the arts commu-

nity as one of the industry’s

paper used is archival
aliee 100% cotton rag that
wort break down or yellow
over time. “Hts the same

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ARTIST Russ Penhall and printmaker T Torrie Groening (right) are party to the entire
printmaking process. Manuel Lau rolls the ink onto a plate which is photoimprinted
with the image. Mia Tremblay assists. Paper is applied then pulled through the press.

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