Paddy Summerfield is a chigiri-e and graphic artist who is known for the application of the Japanese chigiri-e technique to abstract and figurative art using strong and vivid colours.[1][2] Traditionally the technique was widely used for decorative subjects. Her graphic art includes etchings,[3] book covers[4] and she designed the logo for an international women’s advocacy group now Issis-wicce.
Summerfield is of Irish-English background and was born in Hastings, England. She began her creative life by being commissioned by Liberty of London to design and make soft toys during World War II. She won a scholarship to the Hastings School of Art and later studied at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, The Netherlands. Summerfield started exhibiting as a graphic artist in 1976 with a solo exhibition in Chamonix, France which enabled her to become a professional artist under French law.[5]
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Summerfield was part of the European development of interest in the Japanese chigiri-e technique and she participated in the first chigiri-e page in Wikipedia in 2008. In Japan the traditional chigiri-e technique was used for images of flowers and landscapes with hand-made coloured paper, torn and arranged to create the image. Summerfield broadened the technique and applied it to abstract and figurative art. She used an etching press, oil-based paint and super-thin (10g) paper to achieve a transparency allowing the construction of layers for the final work.
Many of Summerfield’s themes for her chigiri-e work have been based on body language. In 1990-1993 she had her own gallery/atelier within the Mazie Galerie, The Hague exclusively for her etching and chigiri-e.[1] She has had over 40 solo and group exhibitions in various countries of Europe and since 1988 her chigiri-e work has been shown in exhibitions in galleries in The Netherlands, Grafiekwinkel INKT, Galerie Wind, Kunsthuis 18, De Hofboerderij as well as Galerie Orangerie Willemstad, Curacoe.
Paddy Summerfield’s early work used etching, drawing and monoprint techniques with exhibitions in Switzerland and France before starting in The Netherlands at Galerie Jan van Munster[6] (now Smelik and Stokking) The Hague. Her themes focused on nature the relationship between nature and technology and human and animal body language.[7][8][9]
^Lammerding, Evelyne (6 February 2010). "Ik houd van levendige kleurenː Paddy Summerfield exposeert werk met Japanese techniek (Using Living Coloursː Paddy Summerfield Shows work using Japanese Technique)". AD Westland. p. 18.
^Millwood, David (1989). Something to Share. Uppsala,Sweden: Swedish Mission Council. pp. cover. ISBN91-85424-17-X.
^"A la M.J.C du 2 au 30 Avril la Haute-Savoie vue par une Anglaise (At the MJC the Haute Savoie viewed by an English woman)". Le Messager. 2 April 1976.
^"Galerie Jan van Munster". Posthorn. 28 April 1988.
^"Exhibition in Den Haag". Kunst Beeld, Amsterdam. 5 June 1988. p. 33.
^"A la M.J.C: L'exposition Paddy Summerfield une extreme diversite des genres (The exhibition of Paddy Summerfield shows an extreme diversity of styles)". Dauphine Libere. 1 April 1976.
^Austin, Margaret (April 1986). "A Natural Artistː The Etchings of Paddy Summerfield". The Paperː Amsterdam. Vol. 46.
February 27, 2024
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