Category Archives: Printmaking

Husb In Blue…

I don’t always work from drawings although 90% of my work, or more, is based on sketches. Sometimes I have a bit of a play with photographic imagery and translate it into various forms of printmaking, this is cyanotype. Cyan is the colour blue and also the first four letters of cyanide and it’s thisContinue reading “Husb In Blue…”

One From The Archives ….

One of my favourite places is Paviland, a strange otherworldly cove on the coast of the Gower Peninsula which is the site of the Goat’s Hole Cave, famous for the skeleton of the  “Red Lady of Paviland“, which is actually a young man. From the main road, it’s a fair walk across fields via aContinue reading “One From The Archives ….”

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,Continue reading “Graphite Not Messiness.”

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.

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 andContinue reading “The Final Print …. The Exhibition”

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.

This Seagull Got Stuffed.

Now, a lot of people in Swansea, and other places too, don’t like seagulls. I don’t particularly care for them myself to be honest, except when they zoom down and pinch someone’s burger in the street …. or poop on Husb’s head, which has happened many times 😀 But I like drawing them. This isContinue reading “This Seagull Got Stuffed.”

From The Archives … Friday Weirdness

Here’s one I did a few years ago, a mixed media piece full of weirdness. The background is a transfer print onto heavily textured Bockingford paper of a local building. And I have drawn a figure in the foreground. She’s a life size puppet made and inhabited by the North Wales-based artist, Wanda Zyborska.

Cutting Ideas …

While I was developing ideas for my recent prints about the Miner’s Wives in the Miner’s Strike (1984-1985) I drew sections of my ink and wash sketches onto small pieces of lino, to practice cutting different textures and effects. I haven’t tried doing such complex images into lino before, I usually work with very starkContinue reading “Cutting Ideas …”