Gold and Blue is the latest exhibition in the Telephone Gallery. It’s an exhibition of cyanotypes by Kathryn Gray, a local community artist and the Telephone Gallery curator. Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process from the1840s, using photosensitive-coated paper or fabric exposed to sunlight. The prints were made by arranging natural objects and paper cuts on the coated paper, securing them with an acrylic sheet, and then exposing them in the sunlight for about 15 minutes. After washing the paper in water, the sunlit areas turn blue. Once dry, the prints were decorated with gold leaf. There are fourteen prints and all are different.
Making cyanotype prints is a magical process. Before exposure to UV light, the coated paper is a light green and in the sun changes to grey/bronze. When washed in water, it slowly changes to blue, deepening over the day. Using the paper cuts adds contrasts with the organic shapes and the gold leaf adds some fun highlights
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