From: Peter Fredrik (pete@fotem.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/05/00-01:35:56 AM Z
Randall Webb wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 3:20 AM
> Subject: Re: All Gum Show online exhibit
>
> Katherine Thayer wrote.
>
> << Due to equipment problems I've been offline for a while and have just
> now had an opportunity to see this online gum show>>
>
> I was also intereested to see the on-line Gum exhibition. Despite the
> drawbacks of seeing the images on screen it was very enjoyable. Both the
> images and the techniques were of high quality. It was good to see gum
> printers working in black and white. That takes us back! The other virtue
> is the fact that it exists. With the notable exception Peter Fredricks
> Fotempera school we see very few gums on show in the UK. And those that we
> see are years old and of the pseudo pictorialist, misty morning variety.
> After seeing the on-line gum show I am tempted to try it myself!
> Randall Webb
Thanks Randall for the plug re our School of Temperaprint. I too was most
impressed with the all Gum online show, my only disappointment was not
seeing Katherine's contribution. Randall is quite correct in his summation
that we do have a dearth of gum workers in the UK at the moment, and the work
I have seen is very retrospective in character. I am not against this in
principal , what is one persons meat is another 's poison, but I do feel that
Art in general and alternative printmaking in particular is most effective
if it relates to its time rather than showing a romantic interpretation of
a world that no longer exists
Pete
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