Jill Bennett

AMPHORAE is a stone lithograph inspired by a group of Roman ceramic wine and olive oil containers shipwrecked off the coast of southern France. Released from their watery graves their elegant shapes, with the added encrustations from their underwater experience, have been recreated on the lithographic stone, where lithographic tusche has been employed and controlled to create the individual images, forming reticulations as it dries to add texture and tone. Amphorae is printed on Somerset Satin in a single colour in order to emphasise the simplicity of form of the group and to accentuate the soft tones and textures of the image.