Tina Shepherdson is an emerging Bradford print artist and illustrator, with work ranging from personal projects to commissioned projects, including book illustrations, logos, landscape art, and murals, and who utilizes a range of art techniques and processes, including reductive screen and Risograph printing.
Strike Taekwondo Mural. Commissioned work. Image: see artist’s website, below.
Tina has written of her approach to her work:
My fine art work has been a challenge I’ve really enjoyed – to explore visual language and expand my understanding and execution of the meaning behind words, of hidden language and cloaked expression.
I find it very inspiring to keep moving, changing, developing and experimenting with colours, techniques and styles without losing my own identity.
My use of reductive screen printing is representational of change. Reduction printing is a destructive process. The original must be broken down and relinquished in order to create something new. The resulting print is a reflection of the original, a re-conceived countenance of what was.
Artwork from The Trapezium Gallery Exhibition, 2019. Image: see artist’s website, below.
After completing her BA degree in Graphic Design and Illustration at Bradford College, Tina gained a MA in Visual Arts in 2018 from the same institution.
She has exhibited her work with another local artist, Jenny Zigzag, in their joint exhibition, ‘No Pressure!’ at The Triangle, Shipley, in February 2018. Tina also showed her artwork in a solo exhibition at The Trapezium Gallery, Bradford, February/March, 2019.
Image: see artist’s website, below.
Artist Contact: Tina Shepherdson