'It is the ability to shape and manipulate a piece of flat zinc plate
into a form capable of holding ink to create muliple images, that makes
the process of etching so exciting'
Angela Walker is a New Zealand artist and printmaker based in Wellington. Angela uses traditional acid based, etching and printmaking techniques and creates limited edition original etchings and original fine art prints.
Born and raised in Lower Hutt, Angela attended Hutt Valley High School in Lower Hutt, before going on to study fine arts as a New Zealand artist at Canterbury University, where she specialised in printmaking. Her first original etchings were exhibited by the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in 1977, when she was still a student.
3 children kept her occupied throughout most of the 1980's and it wasn't until 1992, that she joined the Lower Hutt Art Society and began experimenting with the etching process again. Numerous opportunities to exhibit and sell her original fine art prints followed.
In 1999, she and her family moved to a 400 acre agro-forestry farm in
rural Whiteman's Valley, near Upper Hutt. They built a new corrugated
iron house on the hill overlooking the stream and a large farm equipment
barn in the paddock below. The upper floor accommodates Angela's studio
where she creates her original etchings.
As a New Zealand artist, Angela has found this rural setting an inspiring place to work and many of her images for her fine art prints are taken from her immediate environment and feature the stream, rocks, ferns, hills, birds and flowers. Subjects for other original etchings have followed visits further a field, to places like Lake Taupo (resulting in some Trout fish fine art prints) Blenheim (Vineyard art prints) Mt Ngauruhoe, Island Bay and the lighthouses at Castlepoint and Pencarrow.
Angela creates her original etchings on zinc plate, etching with Nitrac Acid and hand prints using high quality inks on premium mouldmade, acid free paper. (Hahnemuhle or Moulin du Gue). Many of her original etchings feature multiple plates and she often likes to incorporate some small embossed, collage elements, such as birds, ferns, feathers or leaves, to give her fine art prints a slight 3 dimensional effect.
Her original limited
edition etchings now hang in many private collections both in New Zealand
and overseas and these very affordable fine art prints can be purchased
from select dealer galleries throughout New Zealand or directly from the
New Zealand artist herself. Go to 'Order on line'.
