Category Archives: Printmaking

Monotype And Mari Lwyd.

I spent a day up The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir yesterday and took a small lino block of a Mari Lwyd I cut a couple of years ago. I thought I’d try doing different things with it. I printed a border on a cheap cotton shirt (here) and then I switched inks and printed Mari’sContinue reading “Monotype And Mari Lwyd.”

Mari Lwyd On My Shirt!

I did my one-day artist residency at The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir today and had a great time, some really fascinating people came into the gallery and first off, I used my Mari Lwyd lino block to print up a cotton shirt, a cheap buy from TK Maxx, with Speedball Fabric Block Printing Ink. Husb and I made our own MariContinue reading “Mari Lwyd On My Shirt!”

Mari Lwyd, The Workers And Me.

Here’s some shameless self-promotion for my one-day artist residency at The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir this coming Friday. I’ll be bringing the flat-pack Mari Lwyd that Husb and I made from a kit designed by David Pitt for TRAC. It includes the outfit I printed with a Mari Lwyd design cut into a lino block.Continue reading “Mari Lwyd, The Workers And Me.”

Come And See Me Up The Rhondda.

I’m off to Ynyshir in The Rhondda Valley on Friday 15th September for a one-day residency at The Workers Gallery, a little cultural gem in this former mining community. I’ve done a lot of work over the past few years around the Mari Lwyd, an ancient Welsh mid-winter tradition, so I thought I’d take lovelyContinue reading “Come And See Me Up The Rhondda.”

A Blue Cast …

Here’s another little gel-plate experiment using a 10cm diameter round plate, with three primary colours – Process Yellow, Magenta and Cyan – with lots of Extender to make the colours translucent. It’s quite a random process and each one has turned out different. This has an overall Cyan cast but also the Magenta is quiteContinue reading “A Blue Cast …”

Red Gelli

I spent a bit more time playing with a Gelli plate at Swansea Print Workshop this week, using a round plate, a bag that onions were in , Cranfield Safe-Wash Process Red relief ink and Extender onto offcuts of HoSho paper. I tend to use the Gelli plates to print papers for collage and chineContinue reading “Red Gelli”

Lemon Gelli

I was at Swansea Print Workshop this afternoon and I started working on a small circular Gelli-plate, laying down the first colour, which is Process Yellow, an intense lemon. I’m using Caligo Safe Wash Relief ink mixed 50:50 with Extender to increase translucency and the texture is created with a net that lemons were soldContinue reading “Lemon Gelli”

From My Archives: Concertina Screenprint

Here’s a screenprinted concertina booklet I made in 2018, 2 years BC (Before Covid) at a weekend workshop with the inspirational Kelly Stewart. I used motifs from my collaborative project with Dewi Bowen and Melvyn Williams, Hunting The Wild Megalith. Kelly will be running another weekend of screenprinting at Swansea Print Workshop at the endContinue reading “From My Archives: Concertina Screenprint”

GrrrRR

Here’s the little Type arrangement printed up. I’ve been trying out different ink / paper combos and I think this is the best one for me. The ink is Cranfield Safe-Wash Relief, in Process Cyan and Process Magenta with a dab of Extender in the middle. The paper is HoSho, printed on the smooth sideContinue reading “GrrrRR”