New Painting: La Demoiselle d’Ynys Môn
This is a recent painting, which was partially inspired by Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, hence the title…
My Artwork
First Steel Plate Etching
This is my first attempt at steel plate etching, under the guidance of David Bower. It needs further etching to increase the value range, but it’s exciting to see the variety and quality of marks that are possible with this technique!
Monotype Printing Experiments
These are the results of a hugely enjoyable afternoon in August spent learning about monotype printing with David Bower. Monotype is described as the most painterly technique of printmaking and it’s really liberating to see what sort of marks can be made. I love the fact that, unlike other printmaking techniques, you get instant …
New Painting: Menai Suspension Bridge
Latest painting: Menai Suspension Bridge (oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm), inspired by the recent IAG workshop with Jeremy Yates.
New Painting: Sun Breaking Through Cloud, Four Mile Bridge Estuary
Sun Breaking Through Cloud, Four Mile Bridge Estuary (oil on board 61cm x 52cm)
First Print Run
This is my first ever limited (variable) edition print run. It’s a drypoint etching in perspex.
Maquette Experiments and Video
I was struggling with trying to find ways to play with three-dimensional form on the two-dimensional printmaking surface, a recalled the Cubists’ use of cardboard maquettes (of guitars etc) to try and work out their ideas, so these are my attempt to reverse the process and create depth using flatness.
More Printmaking Experiments
More drypoint and linocut experiments focused on trying to separate line, value and colour from form.