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Description: | Janet Brooke's colour screen print looks southwest towards the Isle of Dogs from the seventh floor of Newham College of Further Education in East Ham. Brooke taught printmaking there until June 2000.
Silhouetted rooftops and buildings appear to float on the skyline. Several buildings can be identified, including Canada Tower on Canary Wharf and the 27-storey Balfron Tower residential block in Poplar.
Janet Brooke was hooked on printmaking 'from the moment I first pulled a squeegee across a screen and marvelled at that glorious expanse of colour.' She has a passion for London and believes the process and her chosen subject matter have similarities: 'my prints are built up with many layers of over-printed colour, echoing the organic way a city evolves, with each generation and tribe adding to what has gone before'.
A founder-member of East London Printmakers, Brooke lives and works in the East End. Her main inspiration remains the endless visual richness of the community's urban landscapes. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Janet Brooke | Subjects: | Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1992 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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