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Recent new prints.
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The greenman/hare image - 'Autumn Witch' was a print and idea which I began with little clear idea of where it might end up! See my blog for the full story.
'Silence' is a screen print; made entirely by hand painting stencils directly on to the screen. There are also large seasonal greetings cards available of this print See here for details.
'Silence' is a screen print; made entirely by hand painting stencils directly on to the screen. There are also large seasonal greetings cards available of this print See here for details.
Other prints from this year. Most of these are linocuts with additional screenprinted colour.
Also some experimenting again with both 'blind embossing' lino and use of gold ink.
Some of the smaller ones were made making use of the small portable press I discovered last year - the 'XCut XPress' - the use for printmaking of which has already developed into something of a world-wide movement! See my BLOG for more on this.
Also some experimenting again with both 'blind embossing' lino and use of gold ink.
Some of the smaller ones were made making use of the small portable press I discovered last year - the 'XCut XPress' - the use for printmaking of which has already developed into something of a world-wide movement! See my BLOG for more on this.
Four more recently completed prints: one using only hand painted screenprint stencils; the others - as usual - combining linocut and screenprint; sometimes with separate overprinted lino blocks.
Other prints:
A set of four linocuts overprinted with simple screenprinted tints; as often - trying to marry text and image.
A light hearted linocut in both one and several colours versions.
Also two prints which are reactions to my long involvement in and love of Roe deer: 'Duel' is about the way roe bucks will fight - to the death in some cases - and is printed from three separate overlapping blocks. And 'Seconds Ago' is about that certain moment of regret many deer managers have.
A set of four linocuts overprinted with simple screenprinted tints; as often - trying to marry text and image.
A light hearted linocut in both one and several colours versions.
Also two prints which are reactions to my long involvement in and love of Roe deer: 'Duel' is about the way roe bucks will fight - to the death in some cases - and is printed from three separate overlapping blocks. And 'Seconds Ago' is about that certain moment of regret many deer managers have.
Other prints from the last two years: Mostly combinations of reduction linocut with screen printed elements - in a range of sizes and complexity.
'Treasure' and 'March Rooks' were both selected for the Royal Scottish Academy Open 2016. The small 'Christmas Hare' and 'Two' were commissions. The Witch Hares prints continue both a theme and a technique. I used the first cut of the block as a one colour edition in itself - then made a second print from the same block using the more complex 'reduction' method. On the Information/Printing Page there is a link to see a video of the process of making 'Treasure'.
'Treasure' and 'March Rooks' were both selected for the Royal Scottish Academy Open 2016. The small 'Christmas Hare' and 'Two' were commissions. The Witch Hares prints continue both a theme and a technique. I used the first cut of the block as a one colour edition in itself - then made a second print from the same block using the more complex 'reduction' method. On the Information/Printing Page there is a link to see a video of the process of making 'Treasure'.
The hare began as my poem about mountain hares on a grouse shoot. In the black and white version the poem has taken over from the image! The text in this and 'Snowdrops' and 'BB' is hand carved linocut. The two editions of 'June Buck' began as a single colour linocut with screen print; then I used the same block for a 'reduction' print with a reworked shadow. 'Snow Doe' and 'October Breath' were the first reduction linocuts made on my then new old Columbian press.
Two of these include earlier experiments with 'blind embossing' for the 'breath' (March Blackbird also won the Printmaking Prize at the Royal Scottish Academy Open 2015). Much recent work combines text of my own poetry with images. However the little BB print is a quote from a gravestone, used in all the books of the writer BB.
