Willa Cox's "Trees."

Prints with a
photo quality

GALLERY

On View In The Islands

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By Suzanne Tswei
tswei@starbulletin.com

They may look like photographs, but they are really prints made from paintings on thin sheets of aluminum plates. Artist Willa Cox applied etching ink to the plates with brushes and sponges as well as an unusual arrays of tools, such as lamb's wool, cotton balls and swabs to create the realistic images. The plates are fed through a press to transfer the images onto paper. Watercolor, gouache, pencil and ink with collage elements also are applied to the paper to finish the work.

The mixed-media artworks are on display at the Queen Emma Gallery in the main lobby of the Queen's Medical Center. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon weekends and holidays. The exhibit runs through next Sunday. Call 537-7167 for more information.

Cox grew up in Hawaii and received her master's degree in fine arts from the University of Hawaii in 1983. Her first solo exhibit was held at the Queen Emma Gallery in 1980. Cox now lives and works in New York City.

The artist had just one chance to create these works;
once the aluminum plate, with paint applied to it, is pressed
onto paper, the images are gone from the plate forever.
The work above is entitled "Clouds."

"Scholar's Rock."

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