Paddy Summerfield (artist)

Summerfield was part of the European development of interest in the Japanese chigiri-e technique and she participated in the first chigiri-e page in Wikipedia in 2008. In Japan the traditional chigiri-e technique was used for images of flowers and landscapes with hand-made coloured paper, torn and arranged to create the image. Summerfield broadened the technique and applied it to abstract and figurative art. She used an etching press, oil-based paint and super-thin (10g) paper to achieve a transparency allowing the construction of layers for the final work.

Many of Summerfield's themes for her chigiri-e work were based on body language. In 1990-1993 she had her own gallery/atelier within the Mazie Galerie, The Hague exclusively for her etching and chigiri-e. She had over 40 solo and group exhibitions in various countries of Europe and from 1988 her chigiri-e work was shown in exhibitions in galleries in The Netherlands, Grafiekwinkel INKT, Galerie Wind, Kunsthuis 18, De Hofboerderij as well as Galerie Orangerie Willemstad, Curaçao.

Paddy Summerfield's early work used etching, drawing and monoprint techniques with exhibitions in Switzerland and France before starting in The Netherlands at Galerie Jan van Munster^[7] (now Smelik and Stokking) The Hague. Her themes focused on nature the relationship between nature and technology and human and animal body language.^[8][9][10] Apart from many book cover designs she illustrated a children's book.^[11]

• Paddy Summerfield chigiri-e work
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  Entre Nous
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  Friends 7
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  Tulip
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  Zonder Titel

• Paddy Summerfied etchings and graphic work
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  Mooch
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  Femme et Enfant
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  Communication
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  Salute to the Sun

• Just Dropping By (2025) (poems and illustrations) by Paddy Summerfield U2pi BV. Den Haag. Netherlands ISBN 978-90-82395785
• Illustrations forː (2024) De Avonturen van Rossie de Uil (die in Scheveningen woont): translated from English by Peter de Valk: The Hague: Uitgeverij U2pi ISBN 978-90-823957-6-1
• Paddy Summerfield (2019) by Paddy Summerfield U2pi BV Den Haag ISBN 978-90-823957-2-3
• Illustrations forː (2018) The Adventures of Ginger the Owl (who lives in Scheveningen): The Hague: Uitgeverij U2pi ISBN 978-90-823957-1-6