Wil Lof - her Resume

Name: Wilhelmina Lof 
Born: May 22nd 1948, Hengelo -Ov-, the Netherlands
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Biography

Professional Career

1964 - 1981
- Designed motifes and color schemes for fabric printing to be used for mens and womens fashion.
Associated with several Dutch and German worldwide operating textile printing industries.

1981 - 1997
- Computergraphics: design and styling of several videotex and teletext services,
as well as other "on demand" services on behalf of broadcast television stations,
telecom operators and Cable TV-companies in the Netherlands and abroad.
Early designs of internet websites.

1997 - now
- Full time painter. Member of the Association of Art Painters at Scherpenzeel
Member of the Etchers Group of the Art Guild in Leersum
Establishment of ateliers in Leersum and Scherpenzaal, the Netherlands
1999
Classes at  (Utrecht) in expressionistic and monumental painting
2002 - now
Publishing ( in close cooperation with art publishers) of photolithographics in unlimited editions
2003 - now
Publishing Uitgave in eigen beheer van giclees als limited editions
 

 Wil Lof and Graphics

As may be read from the biography above, Wil Lof came at a young age into contact with the combination of artistic design and printing techniques. Working as designer and colorist in the textile printing industry she acquired skills and know-how of both rouleau-printing (a rotational gravureprint) as well as flat and rotational serigraphy (known as film screen printing in the textile industry) lots of her designs were printing for womans and mans fashion clothing. Later - at Parisign - the offset lithography onto paper was added, to avoid in som third world countries the import limitations for printed fabrics: de paint of the printed patterns on the paper, free of import taxes, was locally transferred to fabrics.

No wonder that during her classes at the Academy for Art and Industry she devoted herself to graphics. She practised linocutting, engraving and etching, as well as silk screen printing, thus obtaining skills in all three major graphical techniques:  relief print, gravure print of screen printing. Each of these techniqeues has its own limitations and advantages in terms of design resolution and the way of applying colours.

When Wil concentrated on full time painting around the turn of the century, her interest went both to graphics (etching at the Kunstgilde in her home town Leersum), as well to free style monumental painting. Still, she kept in mind the possibility to reproduce her painted originals. Late 2002 a contract was awarded with an art publisher, who reproduced a first series of paintings (two figuratives and two abstracts) in photo-lithographic techniques, commonly known 'as posters' . Due to the relative limitations in terms of use of colours and reolution, the possibilities of the Iris technique and giclee techniques were investigated. From 2003 onwards Wil Lof publishes a range of figurative painting in this marvellous advanced piezoelectrical giclee printing technique, resulting in pixel free reproductions on paper  or on canvas.