Industrial Canopy — Jenny Mason-GunningLong Website DescriptionIndustrial Canopy is a relief solar plate print defined by bold silhouette and striking two-tone contrast. The image is reduced to its essentials — structure and space, shadow and sky — creating a powerful graphic presence that feels both organic and engineered.Printed from a relief solar plate, the work does not rely on tonal layering. Instead, its impact comes from clarity and restraint: dark silhouetted forms cut sharply against the open ground, allowing the canopy-like structure to emerge through negative space alone.The composition suggests an industrial world as much as a natural one — branching forms that feel architectural, intersecting like frameworks, enclosing the space beneath them. There is a sense of stillness and suspension, as though the scene is paused between growth and machinery, nature and structure.Printed onto Somerset paper, the plate leaves a heavy embossed impression in the surface. This deep plate mark becomes part of the work itself — a tactile record of pressure, process, and the physical force of printmaking.Industrial Canopy reflects Jenny Mason-Gunning’s continuing exploration of relief solar plate techniques, using silhouette and emboss to create atmosphere through the simplest means: contrast, form, and the trace of the plate pressed into paper.
