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Dorothea Van Camp

Boston, MA

Dorothea Van Camp lives and works in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston with forays to work on a press in West Newton at Shepherd Maudsleigh Studio. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, by way of the University of Cincinnati she foolishly resisted her  advisor’s pleadings to transfer to the print department. Once graduating, print in one form or another has always informed her work.


“I  have been using screens in my work for nearly twenty years. At first, it was to transfer the vector drawings I was making into my paintings. From the get go, I never liked screen printing inks, whether lacquer based Nazdar or Speedball acrylic. As soon as  I tried oil paints with my screens, it was all over. Love.


As  I accumulated more and more screens, I began to wonder how else I could use them in my work. It turns out you can make amazing viscosity monoprints by printing onto a plate and then working back into it by hand before running through the press. Then came watercolor  monoprint, carborundum, sugar lift, mokulito, all with my screens. I even use them to surface print on photo-etchings after the plate is wiped. Printing screens with oil kinda changes everything."

Top image: Dorothea Van Camp in the studio. Photo courtesy of Jim Kiely

This image: Flyers
Monoprint: Screen transfer & hand worked oil on Rives BFK
27” x 22”
2018

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