'Lemon Balm' by May Everett
'Lemon Balm'
56 x 38.5 cm
Monotype on Fabriano Paper
2024
£475
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
May Everett (born 1982), is a painter and printmaker based in Lewes. She currently works in a studio in the 18th Century Star Brewery and runs printmaking courses across Sussex. Everett studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton and discovered experimental printmaking techniques in her final year, fuelling an interest to unify her practice as a painter and a printmaker. She is interested in lyrical abstraction and the combination of painterly and spontaneous mark making with more considered printed or collaged elements. Everett’s work has featured in many group exhibitions and open studio events, notably ‘It Rose & It Fell’ curated by Terrace Gallery and ‘Fairground’ at Glyndebourne Opera House. Her work has been selected for the Jackson’s Art Prize longlist and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024, and is held in UK and international private collections. “My preferred printmaking method is monotype as the process offers the opportunity to capture luminous colour and brushwork, resulting in unique and serendipitous outcomes. My work is very much process led therefore I tend to discover the image whilst working although recurring themes often emerge. Sussex landscapes, gardens, foliage, textiles, window frames, archways, vessels, and bodily forms shift, dissolve and reappear as semi-translucent inks are repeatedly applied and then removed with brayers, rags and brushes. In these recent works on paper I have been exploring impermanence in the natural world, combined with a current interest in physical and imagined borders. The ‘frame within a frame’ construct offers opportunities for further abstraction as elements of the central image expand to become a pattern or motif, and also questions the act of picture making itself.”
'Lemon Balm'
56 x 38.5 cm
Monotype on Fabriano Paper
2024
£475
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
May Everett (born 1982), is a painter and printmaker based in Lewes. She currently works in a studio in the 18th Century Star Brewery and runs printmaking courses across Sussex. Everett studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton and discovered experimental printmaking techniques in her final year, fuelling an interest to unify her practice as a painter and a printmaker. She is interested in lyrical abstraction and the combination of painterly and spontaneous mark making with more considered printed or collaged elements. Everett’s work has featured in many group exhibitions and open studio events, notably ‘It Rose & It Fell’ curated by Terrace Gallery and ‘Fairground’ at Glyndebourne Opera House. Her work has been selected for the Jackson’s Art Prize longlist and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024, and is held in UK and international private collections. “My preferred printmaking method is monotype as the process offers the opportunity to capture luminous colour and brushwork, resulting in unique and serendipitous outcomes. My work is very much process led therefore I tend to discover the image whilst working although recurring themes often emerge. Sussex landscapes, gardens, foliage, textiles, window frames, archways, vessels, and bodily forms shift, dissolve and reappear as semi-translucent inks are repeatedly applied and then removed with brayers, rags and brushes. In these recent works on paper I have been exploring impermanence in the natural world, combined with a current interest in physical and imagined borders. The ‘frame within a frame’ construct offers opportunities for further abstraction as elements of the central image expand to become a pattern or motif, and also questions the act of picture making itself.”
'Lemon Balm'
56 x 38.5 cm
Monotype on Fabriano Paper
2024
£475
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
May Everett (born 1982), is a painter and printmaker based in Lewes. She currently works in a studio in the 18th Century Star Brewery and runs printmaking courses across Sussex. Everett studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton and discovered experimental printmaking techniques in her final year, fuelling an interest to unify her practice as a painter and a printmaker. She is interested in lyrical abstraction and the combination of painterly and spontaneous mark making with more considered printed or collaged elements. Everett’s work has featured in many group exhibitions and open studio events, notably ‘It Rose & It Fell’ curated by Terrace Gallery and ‘Fairground’ at Glyndebourne Opera House. Her work has been selected for the Jackson’s Art Prize longlist and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024, and is held in UK and international private collections. “My preferred printmaking method is monotype as the process offers the opportunity to capture luminous colour and brushwork, resulting in unique and serendipitous outcomes. My work is very much process led therefore I tend to discover the image whilst working although recurring themes often emerge. Sussex landscapes, gardens, foliage, textiles, window frames, archways, vessels, and bodily forms shift, dissolve and reappear as semi-translucent inks are repeatedly applied and then removed with brayers, rags and brushes. In these recent works on paper I have been exploring impermanence in the natural world, combined with a current interest in physical and imagined borders. The ‘frame within a frame’ construct offers opportunities for further abstraction as elements of the central image expand to become a pattern or motif, and also questions the act of picture making itself.”