Deborah Treliving
2020 promised so much - A new decade, an exciting date. But no one predicted what 2020 had in store. 2020 is Red and becomes Redder.
The colour Red gives me a sense of inner warmth, confidence, stability, security, and spontaneity. It is associated with strong emotions of love, confidence, courage, energy, passion, and warmth but also anger, strength and power: a range of emotions which we all may have felt during 2020.
2020 is Red
Monoprint, printed with layers of differing hues of transparent magenta, red, and crimson printed on Somerset paper with oil-based printing inks, using a textured plate, and a Perspex plate with paper stencils.
2020 is Redder
First printing was a transparent yellow (traces of the yellow are retained on the deckle edges on the left of the print). Subsequent printings of transparent magenta and red hues over the yellow made the red redder. It is printed on Somerset paper with oil-based printing inks, using a textured plate, and a Perspex plate with paper stencils.
THE PANDEMIC EFFECT
2020 became Red and then even Redder
I spent Lockdown in my garden: in March wearing woolly hat and waterproofs clearing out the garden pond. As the days warmed, I sat by the pond watching the goldfish, frogs, water beetles and dragonflies, and planted ‘Open Arms’, a pink rambling rose on what would have been my Mother’s 100th birthday.
I grew beetroots, radish, chilli peppers, pumpkins, and 4 varieties of tomatoes from seed. Watermelons entwine themselves around all other plants in the greenhouse. Brussel sprouts grow in window boxes, and French beans climb up javelin poles.
We worked our way through the freezer. Last year’s tayberries and blackberries made mousses, pies, and crumbles in hues of cerise through crimson to burgundy. With a glut of onions, I made red onion chutney.
The colour red gives me a sense of inner warmth, confid ence, stability, security, and spontaneity. It is associated with strong emotions of love, confidence, courage, energy, passion, and warmth but also anger, strength and power; a range of emotions which we all may have felt during 2020.