Gone Printing

About the Artists

Janet Campbell :: Elizabeth Flemings :: Olga Yakovleva

Janet Campbell

Although Somerville-based artist Janet Burns Campbell has always enjoyed drawing, she received her first formal art training as a calligrapher at Reed College, studying with such luminaries as Lloyd Reynolds and Robert Palladino. From there she has expanded into illustration, painting, and digital art.

She has been fascinated for many years by the universe of fractals and how they can be used in traditional art forms, particularly solar etchings. As a member of the Blacksmith House Printmakers, Campbell has experimented with burning designs which are combinations of pen and ink designs, photographs, and fractal patterns into solarplates. These solarplates are then printed one over another to create new and more complex patterns.

Campbell also enjoys more traditional printing techniques like woodcut and monotype. These too, she sometimes merges with digital art. Often she scans in a successful monotype so that it can be used multiple times, in combination with woodcuts, solar etchings, and drypoints. Campbell also constructs miniature cities using brick and stone, which she then digitally photographs. These photographs are then manipulated and combined with monotypes or other real world media and printed in inkjet ink on archival paper.

Campbell's work can be found in several private collections.

Elizabeth Flemings

lives in Cambridge. She retired from life as a city planner and urban designer and turned to art as her next career. After working for several years in watercolor, she discovered print-making and found in that a wonderfully flexible and powerful medium for expressing her artististic ideas. Print-making techniques gave her the ability to create the depth and abstract qualities she sought.

The pieces included in this show demonstrate how she has experimented with different print-making techniques and subject matter to express her artistic goals. Through a process of layering and multiple images she creates a sense of mystery. The viewer has to resolve what is behind and partially hidden and what is up front and immediately available. Most of her work involves the use of the solar etching process in conjunction with monoprint techniques and chine colle or collage.

Her work is found in many private collections throughout the United states and Canada.

Olga Yakovleva

is a native Russian, now living in Arlington. For as long as she can remember, she has always admired the line in Oriental drawings and paintings. The flow, length and amount of lines in a painting convey a mood and the artist's style. The subjects of Ms. Yakovleva paintings dictate the type of line she chooses. Line clarifies meaning, creates textures and conveys a variety of emotions Ms.Yakovleva expresses through her work.

Ms. Yakovleva often tries new media to express her creative ideas. Lately, she has enjoyed working with monoprint. This media lends itself to experimentation with lines and layers of color creating the illusion of a three-dimensional effect. The relationships between lines and colors, shadow and light, are a kaleidoscope of inspiration. The process brings Ms. Yakovleva a great deal of joy which she hopes is passed on to the viewer.

Ms. Yakovleva's art works are in private collections in New England, Virginia, and Russia.