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By June Jordan
Special to the Rappahannock News
The Packing Shed Gallery is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition of etchings and watercolor by master printmaker Viviane de Kosinsky. ‘Scene and Heard’ will run from October 27th to November 29th, with an opening reception on Saturday, October 29th, from 2 to 5 p.m.
The title piece, a line etching smaller than a postcard, shows a guinea fowl perched on a Rappahannock fence. The artist’s tour of a year of illustrations is soon taking the viewer on travels along US 211 through Sperryville, with glimpses of foxes, visiting black bears, local dogs, protective cats, and afternoons in the vineyards, before arriving in London by moonlight or in front of a French flowershop. A violin in its case may be waiting to be played, and notes may still be echoing from a piano in a Paris apartment. There is even a bit of a boar.
These detailed drawings are executed in the traditional painstaking manner, using a steel needle to build up linework through an acid-resistant wax varnish that covers a zinc plate. Each etching requires many hours of meticulous drawing, as the final print will be the opposite or mirror image of what the artist drew, transferred from the plate
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