Emily Ketteringham
My series of prints focusing on the buildings of Bristol has been growing for about three years and shows no sign of stopping. What started as an obvious choice of theme (the coloured terraces of Bristol helped me to fall in love with Bristol after leaving the beach huts of Brighton in 1995) is gradually turning into an obsession! Everywhere I go in Bristol I find myself imagining how I could turn each view into a print.
I love the fact that screen-printing provides me with the choice of representing house colours as they are, or repainting whole swathes of Bristol by remixing my inks.
The collages have grown from the screen prints. By cutting up and combining prints I can juxtapose and rebuild buildings from all over Bristol, creating views that have never existed. The coloured bunting harks back to earlier obsessions.
The Bristol A to Z is filled with roads just waiting to be explored. . .