Typewriter Art By Keira Rathbone

Then she went on to complete a Foundation in Art & Design at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth between 2001 and 2002 which helped her to confirm that she wanted to follow the Fine Art route.
Between the years 2002 and 2005 she studied Fine Art at UWE, Bristol specialising in self-taught subject of typewriter art. She developed and explored ways of creating images using different intensities of typed letters, numbers and punctuation marks.
Since graduating, she has revisited previous interests such as drawing and painting and has rediscovered her enjoyment of these techniques with new subject matters, always maintaining her (often evident) preoccupation with process. She thinks this motivation was inspired by moving back to Dorset and the beautiful surroundings; the sea and rivers, the forests and trees and plants, and the historical buildings. She has a new excitement and is inspired and focused on a range of projects and collaborations. She also found that the techniques she is learning on her jewellery & silversmithing course at The Bournemouth and Poole College are other new and exciting ways to express new ideas.