Last night, I answered a knock on the burrow door. There was Naughty Kitten and his friends, singing carols.
Merry Christmas everyone!
A new linocut
19 December 2009
After several weeks struggling to produce some new prints, I've finally done something that's starting to go in the right direction. It's a two-stage reduction linocut, 16 x 16cm (each square is about 5cm).


First, I cut away the areas from the lino-block that I wanted to stay white, and then printed it in red. Then I cut away the areas that I want to stay red, and print that in black, on top of the red.
The image itself combines the influences of lots of things that I have been looking at recently (though the effect of the influences is quite diluted by the time they reach the paper):
-- the "Revolution on Paper" exhibition of Mexican prints at the British Museum
-- (deceptively) simple linocuts by Robert Taverner and Christopher Brown
-- the Warhol room at the Tate's Pop Life exhibition which had a wall of his celebrity portraits
-- and even the way we hung my paintings in groups of four and nine at a recent exhibition.


First, I cut away the areas from the lino-block that I wanted to stay white, and then printed it in red. Then I cut away the areas that I want to stay red, and print that in black, on top of the red.
The image itself combines the influences of lots of things that I have been looking at recently (though the effect of the influences is quite diluted by the time they reach the paper):
-- the "Revolution on Paper" exhibition of Mexican prints at the British Museum
-- (deceptively) simple linocuts by Robert Taverner and Christopher Brown
-- the Warhol room at the Tate's Pop Life exhibition which had a wall of his celebrity portraits
-- and even the way we hung my paintings in groups of four and nine at a recent exhibition.
Dancing in the snow
1 December 2009
This morning, we opened the first door on our Advent calendar.
And we found a rabbit dancing in the snow!
And we found a rabbit dancing in the snow!
Society of Graphic and Fine Art exhibition
1 October 2009
...And three more linocuts have been selected for the Society of Graphic and Fine Art open exhibition! The exhibition runs from 5 to 10 October, at the Menier Gallery in Southwark (five minutes walk from Tate Modern).
The three prints are:
The City
Bird in a field, Umbria
...and one more, which I've forgotten to scan!
South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts
27 September 2009
I'm delighted that three of my linocuts are to be exhibited at the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts open exhibition in Exeter, from 3 to 16 October.
The three prints are:
Podere le Vigne
High Waving Heather
Summer Solstice
Exhibition opens
12 September 2009
The exhibition at the Ashdown Forest Centre is now open.
(Click the picture above for a better view.)
Cacharros
1 September 2009
New exhibition
18 August 2009
When
11 September 2009 -- 10 January 2010
September
Monday - Friday 2 - 5
Saturday & Sunday 11 - 5
October onwards
Saturday & Sunday 11 - 4
Where
Ashdown Forest Visitor Centre
Wych Cross, Forest Row
East Sussex RH18 5JP
www.ashdownforest.org

11 September 2009 -- 10 January 2010
September
Monday - Friday 2 - 5
Saturday & Sunday 11 - 5
October onwards
Saturday & Sunday 11 - 4
Where
Ashdown Forest Visitor Centre
Wych Cross, Forest Row
East Sussex RH18 5JP
www.ashdownforest.org


Ashdown Forest: More new paintings
2 August 2009
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