Quite a while ago now I decided to do linoprints in postcard size. There were a couple of reasons, first I thought it would be easy to go somewhere and find something unique about it to create an image that easy identified a location, secondly it meant I could use them as cards. The first one was not as easy as I thought (nor do I go to too many different places!) but I have now done quite a few postcards of Bathurst. The second is an interesting dilemma. I hate spending heaps on cards that are going to be thrown out as soon as the present is opened or the birthday is over. My solution was to do lots of the postcard prints and put them on some matboard and make that part of the present. I thought they would be stuck on the fridge or thrown out like most cards. This backfired on me because the people I gave them to wanted them in a format they could frame – quite a compliment but I hadn’t intended to give them a picture that they ‘should’ frame.
The Exhibition The Three of Us with Carol Endean Little, Karin Smith and Catherine Hale will run from 19th November to 8th December at The Little Gallery, 69 George St Bathurst
View Karin Smith's website here
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