Price Of Change.

Husb and I went to the theatre the other week – ooh there’s posh isn’t it?! We saw a new play by Contemporancient Theatre, Price Of Change. It’s about the 18th Century Welsh philosopher and mathematician, Dr. Richard Price of Llangeinor in the Garw Valley. He is hardly known here in his own country, we are taught little, if any, of our own history, but he had a huge impact on American Independence and The French Revolution. Today’s probability theory which underpins AI uses some of his mathematics. It was at the Taliesin Arts Centre and I quickly scribbled one of the actors, Vic Mills.

Graphite Not Messiness.

I’ve nearly finished cutting this little lino block and I want to check how it’s getting on, without inking it up. Instead, I used a graphite block and pieces of tissue paper and took rubbings of different bits of the lino. It gives me a pretty good idea of what else needs to be done, quickly and without the messiness of doing a proof print.

Laid Out Ready …

I did some more cutting into my little lino block this afternoon. I laid it out on the bench hook before I began, with my smallest Flexcut gouge, the Flexcut Strop and Flexcut Gold Polishing Compound.

Reflections In The Old Guildhall.

Husb and I were having a stroll on one of the few sunny days so far this year. I took this photo of reflections in the windows of the historic Old Guildhall in Swansea. It’s pre-Victorian and after the New Guildhall was built in the 1930s it became a school and changed again towards the end of the 20th Century into the Dylan Thomas Arts Centre. Of course, there’s a Swansea Seagull perched on top!

An Urban Screenprint Reflected.

I was strolling along Princess Way in Swansea last evening and saw this gorgeous reflection of Saint Mary’s Church and some trees in the glass frontage of a building. I took a photo and today I uploaded it into Adobe Photoshop, cropped it and shoved it into a “Cutout” filter. I like it, it has the feel of a screenprint about it.

#Caturday – Whose Bed?

Yeah. Okay. It’s YOUR bed. Anything for an easy life. What do I know? I’m just a trained monkey!

In case you’re interested, the wallpaper is Laura Ashley and the blanket by Melin Tregwynt. And I got them both in a sale …. which makes me happy 😀 And the cat is Sparta Puss.

The Final Print …. The Exhibition

This screenprint I did inspired by the Miners Wives in the Miners Strike of 1984-1985 has been accepted into the Miners Imprint exhibition at Taliesin Arts Centre, beginning tomorrow (April 20th) from 13.00 – 15.00.

The work was commissioned by Swansea University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Miner’s Library and 21 artworks were chosen for this exhibition – you can see them here, some are for sale. It’s such a privilege to have my work included in this.

Exhibition Opening

MINERSIMPRINT – Exhibition opening 20 April 2024

All Paul Peter Piech images used by kind permission of Olwen Stocker.

Testing The Progress…

When I’m carving a lino block I like to check on it’s progress regularly. I do this by taking a rubbing with a piece of white paper and a block of graphite. Still a lot of cutting to do on this one though.

One Day I Did Some Abstract Expressionism….

It was twelve years ago, in a Moment of Madness. I worked in oil bars onto a huge piece of cardboard stapled to the wall of my studio. I don’t know why I came over all Abstract Expressionist and I haven’t done it since. I didn’t really know where to go with it so it eventually ended up as mulch on my allotment.