New Coastal Monoprints

 

Winter Moon   monoprint 12.5x12.5cm   ©2026LisaLeQuelenec

More monoprints from recent printing sessions....

 Moonshine   monoprint 12.5x12.5cm   ©2026LisaLeQuelenec

A collection are available in my Folksy store.

New Prints available at RedBubble.

 

New images available at RedBubble. Currently there is a 25% discount sitewide so you can treat yourself to these or any other piece for less. The offer ends soon...

Prints available at RedBubble ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

Room to Run   ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

A distinguished Gentleman   ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

Moonshine   ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

Glinting Moonlight   ©2025LisaLequelenec

New Page Tab - Coastal & Quotes 2022

 

Heading to the beach ©LisaLeQuelenec2022

I have enjoyed building a collection again over the course of this year and as much as the planning and painting giving me lots to think about, the curating of the pieces - their running order and how they could be placed on walls has also been food for thought. I think I will work on another collection in this way next year, I already have a few ideas in mind, one is quite different to October's.... 

As these two photos show, if the weather the last couple of days is anything to go by there may not be quite so much time to research comfortably outside so there might be a bit more inspiration coming from things gathered and brought home. 

Anyway I hope you have enjoyed this collection of paintings and thank you for following along. All the paintings from October are available for sale in my Folksy store here.  To see the collection in its entirety I have made a separate page here on the blog, just click on the tab at the top.

And leaving pretty quick! ©LisaLeQuelenec2022

31 A Silent Delight - acrylic on board

 

A Silent Delight    20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'The moon like a flower in heaven's bower,

With silent delight sits and smiles at the night.'

                                                                                                 William Blake

Available in my Folksy store

30 Serenade of flight - acrylic on board

 

Serenade of Flight   10x10cm acrylic on canvas   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec 

'...gentle

serenade of flight,

snow arrow, serene

ship in a transparent storm...'

                                                                     

                                                                    Ode to the Seagull Neruda

Available in my Folksy store.

Serenade of Flight   10x10cm acrylic on canvas   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

29 Winged banner - acrylic on board

 

Winged Banner   20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'Sail,

bright boat,

winged banner'

                                                                             'Ode to the Seagull - Neruda

A memory of a Summer's day moon..

Available in my Folksy store.

Winged Banner   20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

28 A Vast Space - acrylic on board

 

A Vast Space   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'..a vast space in which you become aware of the turning of the earth

and the insignificance of man.'

                                                                                                                  Fred Cumming

Available in my Folksy store.

A Vast Space   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

27 Drinking the Moons Reflection - acrylic on board

 

Drinking the Moons Reflection   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.'

                                                                                                                                     Rumi

Available in my Folksy store.

Drinking the Moons Reflection   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

26 Wading in Silence - acrylic on board

 

Wading in Silence   10x10cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'...silence has a sound you hear it only after hours of wading in it.'

                                                                                                                  Anne Spollen

Available in my Folksy store.

Wading in Silence   10x10cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

25 The colour of longing - acrylic on board

 

The colour of Longing   20x20cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'Blue is the colour of longing for the distances that you never arrive in.'

                                                                                                                                 Rebecca Solnit

Available unframed in my Folksy store.

The colour of Longing   20x20cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

12 Tranquil Beauty - acrylic on board

 

Tranquil Beauty   20x20cm acrylic on canvas   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin,

one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; one would not

willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.'

                                                                                                                  Herman Melville

Available unframed in my Folksy store.

11 That blue - acrylic on board

 

That Blue    10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'That blue will always be there as it is now, after all man's destruction is finished.'

                                                                                                                          Georgia O'Keeffe

Available in my Folksy store.

That Blue    10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

Painting small...

 

 

Untitled   acrylic on linen board 10x10cm  ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

 

 

I am painting small....small and slow. 

Night Parade - moon and groynes collagraph

 

 

                                Night Parade   collagraph 10.5x23cm   ©2021LisaLeQuelenec
 

 

 

Last print for the year....I think...before the big unwind for the holidays. I am looking forward to it. A chance to process the last years work and make plans for the next year.

Best wishes to all for a happy holidays and a happy, healthy and creative new year. 

 

Available in my Folksy store.

Blue on blue - Moonlit sea watercolour

 
 

Blue on Blue    watercolour 28x28cm   ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

 

A full moon from back in the summer twinkling on the sea in answer to the twinkling lights of the town in the distance. I am missing warm mellow evenings it feels distinctly chillier now.

Available in my Etsy store.

After having a huge studio sort and refurbish, I feel like I have now properly moved in. It took a bit longer than I had anticipated and weirdly even longer for the space to feel like it was mine. It was too pristine and intimidating with all the new work surfaces and furniture - I didn't feel like I could make a mess. I had to give myself a talking to and just crack on. Now I have so many new drawers to store things I am still hunting around to find what I am looking for but it does feel so much more organised. What a lovely 'problem' to have.

 

Transitions collagraphs

 

Transitions I - V  collagraphs xcm ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

 

I love this time of year when the light mellows from summer to autumn. Mornings of mist and earlier evenings, colours change subtley at first and all the summer green retreats to gold and bronze. This is the time of the harvest moon, still time to pick the last berries from the hedgerows before the late autumn storms that will arrive. We have had so little rain here now for weeks, the fields where I walk have looked parched for a while and the ground is so hard. For now I will enjoy the autumn sun and look forward to the storms that will eventually come. The wild weather that churns the sea and throws pockets full of treasure to the shore for a different kind of hunting and gathering.

 

All five prints are available in my Folksy store here.

Transition I collagraph 16x24cm ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

Transition II collagraph 16x24cm ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

Transition III collagraph 16x24cm ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

Transition IV collagraph 16x24cm ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

Transition V collagraph 16x24cm ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

Details Transitions I - V collagraphs 16x24cm ©2021LisaLeQuelenec

A little monoprinting... Turning Tide

Preparing a monoprint plate for printing   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

I wish I could share the smell and sound of sticky ink as I roll a blend of colour. It is a very satisfying part of the process for the senses. The plate is a sheet of perspex (acrylic) the edges filed down and the corners rounded off. With the ink blend rollered on I begin to draw and paint with brushes, making marks and feeling the drag on the darker ink over the colour blend. Using a rubber tipped tool I make further marks lifting off areas of ink which will show as the white of the paper. The moon is a paper mask placed on top. Now it's ready to run through the press.


I place the plate face up on the metal bed of the press, line up a piece of dampened paper on top and cover over with a thick felt blanket. I turn the crank feeling the resistance as the plate and paper pass through the roller of the press then the give as it passes through the other side. Lifting the blanket and carefully peeling back the paper is always a moment of anticipation... you can never be 100% certain what will appear.

Turning Tide III   monoprint 19.5x27cm   ©2019LisaLeQuelenec

This time I am pleased, the blend has covered well and there is a nice variety of marks. So after removing the paper moon mask and without adding or removing any more ink I run the plate through the press again with another piece of dampened paper to get what is called a ghost print.

Ghost print ©2019LisaLeQuelenec

There is much less ink to transfer onto the new piece of paper and a much more faded image results. I love these ghost prints for drawing on and playing with ideas for new work. They have become a part of my process now.

After cleaning off the plate of the remaining residual ink I am ready to start again. Once more a blended roll of colour the drawing/painting on top with a brush, removing ink, adding paper masks. Placing the print with its paper and blanket in the press and running it through. I almost always take a ghost print before cleaning the plate and starting the process again.

I find it a very meditative process but after a half dozen or so prints I start feel a little tired and my concentration starts to lag. Then I stop - look over the prints that I have made, take some quick photographs, evaluate and them place them within sheets of tissue paper that are then sandwiched between heavy boards and wait for them to dry. This can take a couple of weeks depending on how thick the ink is on the paper. Every few days I will change the tissue over for dry sheets and pop them back to bed between the boards.

Turning Tide II   monoprint 19.5x27cm   ©2019LisaLeQuelenec

Turning Tide I   monoprint 19.5x27cm   ©2019LisaLeQuelenec

The original prints are available at Seaside Studios UK on Folksy  and reproduction prints and cards at RedBubble.

Coastal collages and mixed media

Coast I - IV   15.5x15.5cm each   mixed media and collage   ©2019LisaLeQuelenec

Four little-uns exploring some notes I made during the February project. I have been really enjoying working in this way. After the weekends hot spell and blazing sunshine my palette has brightened again. I seem to be very influenced by the weather and light - I wonder if this is a particularly British thing....we do talk about the weather a lot ;o)

All four are available at SeasidestudiosUK on Etsy.

Coast I   15.5x15.5cm mixed media and collage   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

Coast II   15.5x15.5cm mixed media and collage   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

Coast III   15.5x15.5cm mixed media and collage   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

Coast IV   15.5x15.5cm mixed media and collage   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

Stripes on the shoreline no.24

Stripes from the shoreline no.24   paper collage mounted on paper 15x20.5cm   ©2019Lisa Le Quelenec

A new element/technique cutting into the backing paper. In this one I used a punch. I have been looking again at old photographs and making thumbnails of ideas - very graphic and only four tones - an avenue to explore later I think.

This collage is available at Folksy.