The Mezzotint Print technique and tools have largely remained unchanged for the last 300 years. The process achieves tonality by roughening the metal plate with a metal tool, a rocker. The small teeth of the rocker create tiny burrs that hold ink during the printing process. The rocked areas that are left will produce a rich black print, areas that have been burnished (knocking the burrs down) will hold less ink, producing lighter values.

Dancing with Colour - Gaele Rogers

A Collection of Works.

"Pastels (nature finely ground), produce the purest and most intense colour of any medium, thus perfect for imitating nature's wildly extravagant and everchanging palette." 

Gaele Rogers Perazzo

Translucent layers bathed in colour, where light lingers on a slow unfolding of place, memory and the shimmer in between.

The Shimmer in Between traces quiet connections between place and memory, presence and feeling, what is seen and what is sensed. Through translucent layers bathed in colour and light, these encaustic works offer a slow unfolding of form and atmosphere. 

• Julie Simmons
• Shirley Peters
• Mellissa Read-Devine
• Christine Hyde
• Kristy Osseweyer
• Renee Mitchell
• Reeva Ashton
• Sue Gasser
• Deanne Palmer
• Natasha Danilloff