Katherine Loudoun (Kloud Art)

I see every print as an allegory in itself, with its fragments of the history of tradition and image-making coming together as a dialogue that investigates the process and beauty of an image. While my work is varied in practice, it stems from observations of landscapes and architecture via their construction or deconstruction and how this assembly or disassembly can be created by selected printmaking processes. My work often plays with the idea of a fake narrative or tries to emulate an experience, process or memory. Having explored etching, monotypes, intaglio, screen prints and photogravure, I sometimes play moving an image through several processes or using film photography, creating digital negatives to manipulate with Photoshop before creating back into traditional print, transposing something from traditional methods of working, through the modern methods and back into an archival image. As Head of Art at Frensham Heights School in Surrey, I teach both Graphics and Fine Art.