About Spinnaker / foiled
I’ve completed a pair of new works for my Experimental Print Club, edition numbers 23 and 24. I’ve been experimenting with foil blocking techniques for these editions, with the help and advice of Rik at Ripe Digital in Corsham.
There are a number of interesting new ways of laying really beautiful, brightly coloured metallic foils onto paper using short run digital printing and automated cutting processes, but for these two editions I’m working with a solid holographic foil base overprinted with translucent inks that effectively colour shift in some quite intriguing ways as light moves across the surface of the work. The resulting prints are then debossed onto Somerset paper which frames the inked areas beautifully.
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Spinnaker / foiled / EPC #23
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Edition of 24, plus 4 APs
4 colour HP Indigo print on Holofoil, mounted on Somerset 100% cotton rag
Printed at Ripe Digital and assembled in the studio, December 20th 2022
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Sheet size 26cm W x 26.6cm H
Image size 14cm W x 14cm H
In situ and in the studio
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Print Club News / December 22nd, 2022
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…So we’ve reached the Winter Solstice, the beginning of the holiday period, and a beautiful moment for reflection and celebration. If like me you’re a gardener, you’ll know that today marks the point in the year when the light levels start to increase again, albeit slowly at first. As a point of interest, I found out recently that the rate of increase is sinusoidal, so maths and nature intertwined perfectly as ever.
Essentially I’ve been trying to overlay four different coloured foils onto one print, but that hasn’t proved possible, although I think with some digital cutting and adhesives it may well prove possible to assemble multiple separate foils onto a single print by using low tack adhesives and some kind of registration system. Something for next year maybe.
The solution for these two latest editions has been to holo foil the entire print surface, and then overprint with highly translucent inks, which gives a rather amazing effect, that sees the images moving from highly saturated to quite dark, depending on how the light plays across the surface. I hope you’ll agree that this technique makes them good candidates for the Experimental Print Club. The circular image has sprung out of Spinnaker, a drawing I’ve revisited for a recent commission, and the other is a cleaner new geometric piece that hinges around the X,Y,Z drawing axes, creating what I think is a rather satisfying small puzzle like form, that seems quite festive to me. I’m going to work further on this geometry…
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Print Club News / March 3rd, 2023
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…There are a number of interesting new ways of laying really beautiful, brightly coloured metallic foils onto paper using short run digital printing and automated cutting processes, but for these two editions I’m working with a solid holographic foil base overprinted with translucent inks that effectively colour shift in some quite intriguing ways as light moves across the surface of the work. The resulting prints are then debossed onto Somerset paper which frames the inked areas beautifully.…
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