Artwork copyright Peggy Hitchcock. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Roan, 1998

Peggy Hitchcock
(American, born 1951)

Location: Soap Lake Middle/High School, Soap Lake

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Roan is part of artist Peggy Hitchcock’s body of enamel on copper constructions featuring animal imagery. Here the imagery references horses and decorative patterns. She made the rectangular and triangular panels using screen prints based on photocopies from books, magazines, and other media. Hitchcock organizes and assembles a variety of panels featuring different imagery into what she terms a "constellation." The horse images were originally engraved on a copperplate two hundred years ago. Hitchcock used a computer to print them on copper foil. She likes “this marriage of old and new, age old materials and modern tools.”

Hitchcock explains, “I silk-screen both liquid and dry enamel onto copper foil which is then fired at 1500 degrees Fahrenheit in a kiln… I have boxes of enameled copper ready to be used for composing a piece. I’m like a quilter using fabric scraps, only mine are very thin glass and copper that can be folded and cut with a paper cutter.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Soap Lake School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Northwest artist Peggy Hitchcock creates paintings and wall sculptures that explore pattern and form. In most of her artworks, she uses silkscreened and photocopied images based on books, magazines, and other media. She has a library of hundreds of screens that reference history, decorative patterns, the natural world, and much more. Hitchcock explains that part of the beauty of art is that it is "language for our eyes." She grew up in Ohio and has lived and worked in Seattle since the early 1980s.