GUY WARREN
"Red Garden"

coloured
etching
20x25cm

Reproduction courtesy of the artist.

"Red Garden" along with "Entrance" is a three-colour etching recently completed during Warren's stay as visiting artist at the Northern Edition's print workshop, at the Northern Territory University, Darwin.

"Red Garden" was the first of the prints finished during the intense two-week stay. It was a starting point for Warren and was done on the urging of printer Basil Hall who suggested that a particular painting made some time earlier could possibly make a good print. As such the print is a mirror image of the painting "Red Garden" that was in Warren's solo exhibition at Annandale Galleries in 1997.

The painting and the print again deal with the environment and in this piece the figure of indeterminate gender takes the form of a watcher or spectre, emerging from the red of the title. In many of Warren's painting specifically of the landscape there is often fog or the vestiges of it, coming across the image to blur the edges and make vague the difference between figure and environment. What makes this print so captivating is that this fog is an intense red rather than grey and gives a saturated vision of the interaction between man and environment.

There is also a 2-colour version of this print (yellow and black) in the University of Wollongong Art Collection.

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