'BEACONS' at TSEAC - Artist's Talk and Demonstration

An exhibition of fine-art etchings by Susan Early charting a journey around Ireland’s coast through its lighthouses and towers.

Susan Early is a visual artist, printmaker and architect. She is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin where she creates etchings, using aquatint on a single copper plate to produce subtle fine-art prints of tone and colour. Through these prints, Susan Early examines lighthouses and martello towers as enduring maritime landmarks - structures shaped by their landscapes, responsive to the elements and emblematic of protection, navigation and resilience at the meeting point of land and sea. 

Susan’s original fine-art prints are made by etching an image onto a copper plate, inking up this plate and printing it onto damp acid-free paper.

She will show some original sketches created while touring the country, and the materials used for making the plates. She will also bring a number of the etched plates, describing…