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Our Forge & Craft “mini-masterpiece”1 for the Wimbledon Art Fair for spring 2025, is titled Heliocode.

Throughout the past year, we’ve been experimenting with the use of paint as an element of our pen plotter work. This is not to the same extent as some of our friends in the community, who have built complete systems to pick and apply colours individually2 – instead, we’re using 3D printed styli to draw through poured paints. We’ve found this to be an interesting combination, juxtaposing the organic and unpredictable movement of the paints with the precision of the drawn lines.

Our previous mini-masterpiece, New Horizons, was in the show sale last November; a behind-the-scenes image crept into my previous post about plotter work.

The new piece, Heliocode, is something that Heidi spent a lot of time on, largely while I was travelling in my new role! The line art design was my principal contribution – that may reappear in different form, in a future project; experimentation with paint, and creation of the final artwork, were all thanks to her efforts. The design was was not intended to be reminiscent of the previous work, at all (in fact, it was never created with the intent to be plotted) – although, viewed one after the other, I can see that there’s a coincidental similarity.

Heliocode

The artwork was created with a Bantam Tools NextDraw 1117, and again combines poured paint techniques with the more strict stylus dynamics of a coded SVG design. We chose a vibrant yellow medium, and a dark violet for the line art. A slight imperfection still found its way into the pattern, which is part of the charm of working with a mixture of digital and analog tools.

Feel free to take a look at the new work, on the Wimbledon Art Fair sale site – it is one of a kind, at an affordable price.

You can also come to visit us at the event itself – find us in Red Studios 273, between May 8th – May 11th 2025.

1. The mini-masterpieces are made and donated by each of the artists taking part in the fair, as part of fundraising for the future of the show. ↩︎
2. See Licia He’s Painting with Plotters course, as one example. ↩︎

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/28/heliocode/

#100DaysToOffload #art #artwork #bantamTools #creativity #forgeAndCraft #generativeArt #nextdraw #paint #paintingWithPlotters #penPlotter #wimbledonArtFair #wimbledonArtStudios

#Genuary6: Make a landscape using only primitive shapes. Another plot that I made during my artist residency at @bantamtools!
If you want this plot, it's a big 18" x 24" 1-of-1 that was made on an unreleased, prototype machine; so it's very special!
For sale @ https://www.Wendt.Art/product/btafr-the-tower
#PenPlotter #MastoArt #Genuary #Genuary2025 #Tower #ArtResidency #BantamTools #MinimalismArt

#Genuary1: Vertical or horizontal lines only. I actually made this plot during my artist residency at Bantam Tools last month! It's 18" x 24" and was made using one of their awesome new machines, the #ArtFrame! (I can't wait to get my hands back on one of those!)

If you want this plot, it's 1-of-1 made on an unreleased prototype machine, so it's very special!
https://www.wendt.art/product/btafr-the-room
#PenPlotter #MastoArt #Genuary #Genuary2025 #BantamTools #LiminalSpaces

Bantam Tools Artframe: New computer controlled plotter with a fully controllable z-axis so you can use paint, variable pressure on pens, etc
https://www.bantamtools.com/artframe
#bantamtools #plotterart #computers #plotter #emsl #+

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