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These etching gallery pages cover a wide range of themes and techniques, you may also find it convenient to view one of the theme based galleries accessed from the main gallery index page.
Some of the highlights are noted above each selection.
The 'Southern Boobook', one of the more popular Australian owls, began with an original sketch in the chinese brush technique transferred onto copper plate using broad brush marks and sugar lift, then etching in the detail.
'Ascending angel' is one of those delightful works that arose in an atmosphere of ease and simplicity, realized with a gentle aquatint technique, it is also one of the earliest etchings to incorporate gold leaf applied after printing.
Click for larger view of St Francis Preaching to the birds Click for larger view of Southern Boobook 02 Click for larger view of Lotus Click for larger view of Ascending angel
St.Francis feeding the birds
26 x 19 cm
 Southern Boobook 02
Etching 28 x 20 cm		 Lotus
22 x 17 cm		 Ascending Angel
18 x 15 cm
'Song of the Magpie' is a popular, almost iconic rendition of the Australian magpie in a eucalypt.
'Forest Window' highlights the cathedral like shapes that seem to recur in the Australian busb.
The embossed outline of the wave created by the plate profile in 'Dashed Ashore' maintains a simple clarity in the final print.
Click for larger view of Song of the Magpie 02 Click for larger view of Dashed Ashore Click for larger view of Forest Window Click for larger view of 'The abandoned vine'
Song of the Magpie 02
Etching 28 x 21 cm		 Dashed Ashore
15 x 20 cm
 Forest Window
28 x 9 cm
 The abandoned vine
Etching 20 x 22 cm
'Prayer Garden' is an example of collage made by threading hand coloured pieces of tarlatan as the prayer flags across the print, each one being unique in the process.
Click for larger view of Prayer Garden 02 Click for a larger view of 'Frog and the Waterlily' Click for larger view of Pierette - the crossing Click for larger view of Dancing Vine
Prayer Garden 02
27 x 14 cm
 Frog and the Waterlily
Etching 30 x 21 cm		 Pierette - the crossing
17 x 18 cm
 Dancing Vine
24 x 39 cm
'Sun Flowers for Vincent' pays hommage to Vincent Van Gogh, and is available in several colours. A lightly bitten plate achieves the aged effect in 'The Old Apple Orchard' a work which is one of a pair. Refer to the Forest theme gallery for partners to both these etchings.
Click for larger view of 'Sun Flowers for Vincent - blue' Click for larger view of 'The Burgeoning Vine' Click for larger view of The Old Apple Orchard Click for larger view of 'Transcending'
Sun Flowers for Vincent - blue
Etching 25 x 30 cm
 The Burgeoning Vine
Etching 21 x 27 cm		 The Old Apple Orchard
Etching 10 x 15 cm		 Transcending
Etching 21 x 14 cm
Many of the etchings utilize the élé poupé technique where the colour is applied to the plate at the time of printing. However, in some cases hand colouring is applied after the printing, for particular effects such as those displayed in the 'Dawn Lyrebird'.
Click for larger view of Dawn Lyrebird Click for larger view of 'Evening landscape 02' Click for larger view of Rainforest sequence Click for larger view of 'Vineyard Yarra Valley 02'
Dawn Lyrebird
Etching 12 x 17 cm
 Evening landscape 02
Etching 17 x 27 cm		 Rainforest sequence
Etching 30 x 10 cm
 Vineyard Yarra Valley 02
Etching 12 x 30 cm

Copper plate etchings from AU$200 unframed, see the contacts page for postage and handling. Archival custom framing is also available at the gallery, at very reasonable rates.
The copper plate etchings are individually hand printed by the artist, in a limited edition (~50).
Printed on 100% acid free paper, some prints are hand coloured and gilded with 23 carat gold leaf.
© All images in this gallery are Copyright by Eleanor Healy-Wills.
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