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BERNARDHOYES PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP Invitational at RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, June 2024

October 11, 2024 bernardhoyes 1 Comment

Electrolyte Etching Workshop with Bernard Hoyes

BERNARDHOYES Speaks on the WORKSHOP in progress over 5 Days

Duration: Wednesday June 26-Sunday June 30, 2024

Bernardhoyes completes Printing workshop on Electrolyte Etching production techniques. Etching Editions was created incorporating the featured issues of Public Health, Environment, Social Justice and Civic Engagement, In accordance to the Creative Corps SoCal inLand Empire Grant Guidelines. Material resources provided by the Master Printer, as well as his Artistic and Technical consultantion in the featured Discipline, ELECTROLYTE ETCHING, Printing without exposure to Toxic Acids, using 6 volts of electricity and saltwater instead, to etch the Plate.

Workshop includes 6 invited Artists. MAURICE HOWARD, LISA LOUDIN, ADEOLA DAVIES, DEBORAH McDUFF, KAYREN LYLE, and ELLEN FINAN.

Each Artist produced an Edition, curated, signed and numbered and co-signed by the Master Printer.

The Editions are then divided into three parts. One third went to the Artists for their personal use for exhibiting, distributing and sale. One third is divided amount the six artists to compile a Portfolio for each representing the workshop.

The workshop Portfolio is a takeaway for each Artist, to have one sample of fellow workshop participants for their own collection.

The last third of the Workshop Portfolio will be submitted to Archives for Collection, such as Creative Corps Inland SoCal, Riverside Art Museum and others for future exhibitions.

ARTISTS STATEMENTS

I enjoyed the process that made the special print makings possible.Using salt and electric current, I seen the work shop as a historical moment,where the artist could create and give meaning to social justice in our time.

My piece speaks on having freedom to create the importance of being one with the Universe,namely. Ancestor Freedom thank you

Maurice Howard

951.384-8967

mauricehoward1951@yahoo.com

LISA LOURDIN

Electrolyte Printmaking compliments the style in which I like to work with pen and ink nicely. Fine lines and words transfer onto metal plates beautifully. However, the meticulous process to create a successful print requires zen-like patience, some mad scientist skills and a love of the craft. It is a practice.

My focus for this project is environmental. My piece “Trees, Save Us” is a play on the 1975 Green Peace campaign to “Save the Whales”. It was a successful campaign and first of its kind.

My belief is trees save us daily. By simply adding a coma in the title, the context changes a statement to a clarion call for help. I am asking trees to help us recognize the symbiosis we share. We are all connected. Trees can teach us a thing or two if only we would listen.

Lisa Loudin

Phone: 773.981.1270

Website:www.lisaloudinink.com

Instagram: @lisaloudin

Studio: 68-895 Perez Road, Suite I-14

Cathedral City, CA 92234

ADEOLA DAVIES-AIYELOJA

Printmaking is a fundamental aspect of my art practice, allowing me to explore layers of texture, line, and form, creating intricate and meaningful visual narratives. This medium offers a unique way to blend my cultural heritage with contemporary themes, fostering a dialogue between the past and the present. In my etching “Ancestor Warrior” based on “Sacred Imprints,” I draw inspiration from my ancestral, channeling their strength and resilience to address today’s pressing issues. This piece serves as a powerful tribute to those who came before us, amplifying their voices and connecting their enduring spirit with our current struggles for justice and empowerment. Through this work, I aim to honor the legacy of our ancestors while inspiring collective reflection and action in the present.

Namaste,

DEOLA DAVIES-AIYELOJA

Painter, Printmaker & Mixed Media Artist

Connect with me @…

http://www.adeolastudio.org

DEBORAH McDUFF WILLAMS

Visual Journalist and Poet’s Statement

Electrolyte Etching Workshop was a complicated process. Creating an image for printing was the easy part, but this process required transferring your image onto a zinc plate, cleaning, and maintaining reproductive quality of the work. My design focused on social justice issues when it pertains to family trauma and when it begins.

Deborah McDuff

562.233.7686

Debrwil2@gmail.com

KAYREN E. LYLE

KAYREN E. LYLE

The electrolyte etching atelier was hands on and turnkey. I left confident that I could repeat the process unsupervised.

My print, based on the assignment of Civic Engagement, presents abstract themes memorializing all artists and geniuses excluded from major art institutions through the bias of color, background, gender and ethnicity.

Kayren E Lyle

310.415.5705

Kayrenelyle@icloud.com

ELLEN FINAN

ELLEN FINAN Electrolyte Print statement on workshop.
As a textile artist and weaver, I am accustomed to making and printing handheld stamps to create designs on my fabric. However, this was the first time I was exposed to electrolyte printing, a far more formal process of designing the plate, etching the image in a pan with salt and 6 volts of electricity to etch the zinc plate and then inking and making copies on a press. There are of course multiple steps but essentially this is the process. It is intentional, careful, and painstaking. This project was a departure from how I work. As a weaver, I work without pre-planned drafts, freeing myself to embrace serendipity, being in the moment. The design evolves through the intersection of vertical warp and horizontal weft. Color and texture add dimension; boundaries — selvedges— are often broken.

So the invitation from Bernard was welcome. Not only would I learn a new technique that I could employ in the future, I would also create a different way to approach making art— with intention. I chose to use fiber textures in making my plate and I used the moon as my focus. As an intuitive artist, I feel pulled by the moon and its stages, so my piece is called Pulled by the Moon. Guided by a master printmaker and artist is a valuable experience. Bernard was there the whole time demonstrating at times better technique and also how to view the prints by using established criteria. I walked away knowing I could add etching to my repertoire of artistic expression. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Thank you.

Ellen Finan
64048 Dolomite CT
Desert Hot Springs, CA. 92240
760-288-1244

Ellen Finan

760.288-1244

Ecfinan626@gmail.com

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Bernardhoyes, Celebrating Diversity

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The PIE LADY limited edition Lithograph by Bernard Hoyes

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Original oils Painting on canvas 24×36”. 1980
by BERNARD STANLEY HOYES

The first published Print by Caribbean Fine Arts Publishing 1995. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 with 25 Artist proofs and 25 Printers Proofs.

Regular Edition SOLD OUT.

Artist proofs AVAILABLE image 15×22”. Paper 18×24”

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The Festival in Black, held at MacArthur Park downtown Los Angeles in 79’. The Pie Lady was a cultural icon at the Festival evoking Market women who occupies public spaces as an exotic laborer carrying her seasonal produce on her head, selling her wares. The image she present, the primordial entrepreneur, reminded the Artist of the commonality of African cultural customs presented everywhere at the Crossroads of the Caribbean.

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CLIMATE CHANGING, Identifying elements

July 1, 2022 bernardhoyes 2 Comments

RAGS is expressing textures, mood, in its own language through MONO-Printing.

The mission was to recollect the language I “buck up” on while creating a series on elements causing Changes to Present Atmospheric conditions. An imbalance of Air, Water, Fire, and earth taken to extremes.
Rags laden with colors give Textures, cross hatched and fused as elements would amalgamate.
These original piece done in the Desert of California was lost on my trip to Kingston. Cause?, extreme Climate conditions as in “regional Hurricane.” Forty flights to the Caribbean canceled one afternoon in Miami International Airport, including mine to Kingston. Total disarray and confusion as my contribution to the conversation I am having with Fine Arts Printmaker of Jamaica. A cooperative I am encouraging to amplify Printmaking in Kingston was delayed and never found, up to now. So, the show had to go on. Calling on the creative energies, my studio in Kingston became a Laboratory as I recreated the spirit of my pieces I intended to show.
The Exhibition opened at University of the West Indies, Headquarters in Mona. This past week, will close July 15

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Mating Dance Installation in Kingston

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Mating Dance of Hummingbirds 2021

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Bernard Hoyes on Syncona Mesa

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Bernard Hoyes creates “Roots of Pegasus ” Sculpture in Bronze, 2017

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A PROLONGED ABSENCE OF WATER, and MR. BENTLEY

August 20, 2015 bernardhoyes 1 Comment

The Absence of mr. Bentley is going on a year. Our fears was stronger that his. We fared for his survival while he was busy taking care of his with adapting. There is a thing as” call of the wild”. It’s the acclimatization of the senses to the immediate surroundings.

Bently had adjusted. He had defined his territory around Syncona. In the Mornings, we would let him out to explore and signify.

He had his spots to piss. With the grounds so large he would divide the task into sessions. There was the attack on the selected Bushes. Bushes that he would not venture into, but had to announce his presence. He knew whomever is in there, beware, I have this area covered, clear out.

The wild Dogs, he would take them on. drive them to the edge of the property as a border collie would handle sheep. He would not only herd them from both sides but confound them by circling thru their legs. It was amazing to us to witness, while at the same time in fear for his life.

There was the rub. With LaVera leading the single member chorus of trepidation, every time for a walk was a time of anxiety. After a couple of late nite run in with coyote, I out fitted her with a 9mm Beretta. Small, have 8 round with a holster and belt. She was fearless with him on a leash and packing. Only he was never satisfied with his walks with her. It was never in exploit, there was no territorial mapping, no adventure.

He would come in, still looking back thru the window, then looking at me, waiting for me to say “come on” then unleash him on the grounds. He would rush out in full gallop heading out into the mesa. Be it day or night it was the same Geronimo yelp as he attack the selected bushes.

Mr. Bentley reverted to his natural nature just after one year in this reasonable Wild Mesa, I call, Syncona. I read some where that his breed were rodent hunters. Sure enough, he had an instinct for stalking Rats and Lizards. That stand off with the Bobcat over the carcass of a Jack Rabbit, was a serious regress.

LaVera enjoyed hunting with him, it gave her that excitement that she misses after living in L.A. She began to give him leads to their whereabouts. Other than the rats being Rats, they eat the eggs of the CooDoves, her Peeps, which made them her arch-enemy. After awhile, he began to refuse house and Dog food. Pieces of lizards and Rats on the Patio was alarming. Turned out some of the Lizards were endangered.

He knew his limitations though. The Red Racer that comes around, he manages to alert us and Run when he has to. Like that night when he took on the Coyote, to only realize, he was in over his head, and retreated to my heels. Two other time he had encounters. Both time in the light of the Day. Once, LaVera fired off a round. The other, three Coyote had them surrounded, she wasnt armed but mustered some bravado to confront them. Realizing they were outnumbered, She stood in the Path of the one closest, and in her biggest voice told Mr. Bentley to run home, which he did.

He was constantly getting dehydrated. Had a couple of near death experience. His symptoms would be a swollen stomach, hard like a rock, with listlessness. Massaging his stomach while dropping distilled water mixed with fresh blended Aloe Vera in his mouth worked to revive him. Each time he had a quick recovery, but we wondered just how much the experience weakened him.

Once he came up lost. For a whole two days he was nowhere to be found. called on the neighbours on the Mesa. there are five houses only three are occupied all year around. No one had seen him for days. He would wander off on occasion over to the Closest neighbour to visit Adrian, the Doberman. They had a friendship that intensified into a serious affair with Adrian in heat. Our thoughts were they ran off together. But we had already call their bluff by getting them together. Adrian a good two feet taller than Mr. Bentley made is impossible to satisfy their intentions. So the next scenario was that he was stolen, then, the Coyotes finally got him.

At the beginning of the third day I went into the Garage to go through some Boxes. The Back story on this is that we recently moved. A majority of the unpacked Boxes are stored to the ceiling in the garage, ever so often I go in and unpack a few. This day, my back was feeling well, so to take my mind off Bent, I started to unpack some boxes. There he was, happy to see me, shaken and weak. those three days with the average temperature being 105 he has been locked away, no food or water, took a lot out of him.

Good thing I had installed a evaporative cooler to keep the garage, now a Storage for my Published works on Paper, Paintings and Boxes from the Studio in Los Angeles, Tempered. We had already given him up for dead. Made our peace with his Spirit. Even burned a Candle and read and recited Psalm 91.

The next phase was to get him to a safe and secure place where he can be looked after with love. We found such a place with a neighbour on the same street we had live on for 35 years. Someone he knew and who loved him. She agreed to adopt him before, but the deal fell through when she wanted to have him fixed. Didn’t want to interfer with his Personea. The complete Dog that is Mr. Bentley, survived for two years on Syncona, because his nature prevailed intact. This time, the option was more appealing, only to ensure his perlonged survival.

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ART PERFORMANCE at the PALM SPRING ART MUSEUM

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Thursday, February 12, 4-6 p.m.

Bernard Hoyes will demonstrate mono printing with

his “Rag Series” technique.

When Bernard Stanley Hoyes paints, we listen. Yes listen, because his work calls to our inner spirit, piercing spaces deep within, beckoning us to worlds and regions holy, sacred and sanctified. A creator of art, symbols and ancestral echoes, this Jamaican native possesses the power to make colors, forms, and dance, and leap, shout and vibrate on a variety of surfaces. Ancient becomes contemporary, ceremonies rings eternal and traditions manifests as new revelations.

And so it is with Hoyes. His paintings call to us, speak to us, whisper to us. The life force pulses through them. A true product of his environment, Hoyes art for the past thirty years pays significant homage to Jamaican revival culture and the backyard religions he knew as a child. As he mines the traditions of an old and complex culture, he lays it before us like a feast.

His celebration of traditional African religions has found universal appeal, stunning audiences worldwide with their depth and compelling lure. It is no wonder that Oprah Winfrey, Natalie Cole, Richard Pryor, Capital Records and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are all amongst his collectors.

My images stand as praise to our existence, past, present and future. My challenge is to master unique compositions of spiritual significance. I desire to visually engross the viewer through powerful expressive works.

I have been painting from an intuitive point of view. During this process, the spirits take possession and ritual themes have become dominant. The common denominator has been expressions in the Painting medium. My concern with spiritual testimony, using Contemporary expressions has been the driving force that eventually established a visual voice. Of late, the works has gotten transformative.

Proof being, bringing a selection of the Revival Series Paintings to life on Stage, as an Interdisciplinary creative force, using Visual Arts, Video, Dance, African Traditional Drums and Voices as a production titled, “Se7en Paintings, a Story in Performance”. Seven of my most iconic paintings came to life on the Ford Amphitheater Stage in Los Angeles in 2012.

This was the first step into the Interdisciplinary field. New insights in my application of the Painting discipline have since emerged.

The Modernist discourse in my Paintings has evolved. Raw Materials, technology, and raw textures have appeared. Templates harkening back to the Rag Series from the 70’s, when Raw materials and graphics were prevalent in my exploration.

I am still coming from an intuitive point of view, using traditional mediums, to a unified science of all that went before, Into new methods, including neglected concepts and synthesis of varied consciousness.

Hoyes past works is vividly displayed on his website, at www.berndhoyes.com.