Angela Costello Original Prints

I am a printmaker who creates limited-edition original silkscreen prints. Inspired by my fascination with animals and environments, both domestic and wild, I compose my images on paper with ink, applied colour by colour, layer on layer using photo stencil-silkscreen printing techniques.

 

My most recent prints are expressions of my enduring interest in feline movement and attitude. I have combined quirky colours, bold lines and unusual textures to make compositions of graceful, daring and comical cats dancing in a tangle of dynamic lines. In tandem with my feline projects, I collect, through photography, elements from the forest and compose these splendid patterns, textures, values and lines into abstract black and white collages. These images I developed through collage have informed my next series of prints through which I will explore how colour alters meaning and mood.

 

My practice as a printmaker spans over 35 years and I have enjoyed being a part of the Kingston arts community as an artist, arts educator and exhibition manager.