Prints - a selection
These are not 'reproductions' but images made by the artist and printed from the original plates or blocks.
In
relief printing the ink is transferred under pressure from the top
surface of a block to the paper,
all that has been cut away does not print. In
intaglio printing, usually from copper or zinc, the
top surface of the
material remains clean and the printing is done out of the lines etched, bit or
incised into the surface of the plate. The ink is forced into them under heat
and pulled out
of them by damped paper under great pressure. Wood-engraving
is made with hardwoods, usually box.
It is always end-grain, the surface is
highly polished and engraved with special tools. The images
made from box can show fineness of detail with deep contrasts of blacks and
whites. Wood and
linocuts
are made by cutting the image with a knife or gouge. The wood can
be anything from plywood to
sycamore to oak and so on. The relief printer can
also use found objects from which to print.
The prints on these pages
are ones free of specific texts and are in signed limited
editions.
Others
have been made with particular texts but can also stand on their own,
these are
also in
signed and limited editions.
Shown here are just a few examples
of
more than 300+ relief prints and etchings.
Further enquiries, go to ‘contact’.
Wood Engravings 1995,
Dunces
Wood-engraving, 9x13.5cm, 1979, Salmon Fishing
Coloured aquatint (one of 4), 1970, 20x20cm each, Arapaima
Etching/aquatint, each 26x35cm, 1976 Sleeping & Waking
Lino and woodcut, 46x74cm, The Listener, 2001
Calligraphy:
Oh what’s the blood it’s on
your sword,
my son David ...?
Oh I’m goan awa in a bottomless boat,
In a bottomless boat, a
bottomless boat,
An’ I’ll never return again.
Oh when will you return
again,
My son David, my son David,
When will you come back
again?
When the sun and the moon
meet in yon glen
Hey lady Mother, ho lady
Mother,
When the sun and the moon
meet in yon glen
For I’ll return again.
Woodcut, 46x60cm, 2004, My Son David.
From A Christmas Sequence
Joseph and Gabriel
Shepherds and Angels
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