Print Club News / 13th December 2024
I spent a lovely day at Spike Print Studio on Wednesday and completed the next edition for the Print Club. It’s edition #29, a small photopolymer etching with chine collé.
It’s been brilliant to continue learning new techniques there this year, which have added to my arsenal of processes, and will allow me to make more hybridised works over the coming years. I’m planning new editions that will combine both digital and traditional techniques and blend them into something distinctly new.
Print Club News / Summer 2024
I have two small Photopolymer plates that I’m working with. Both are looking very promising I think. There’s a lot to learn here, but in essence I think I can pull off two short editions from these studies, and send them out to you as Print Club editions.
I’m interested to use the Chine Collé technique with both. I’ve bought some Kozo paper, from Intaglio Printmakers in Southwark which I visited a few weeks back, and a beautiful Japanese Hake brush to apply the glue. Chine Collé involves adding a thin layer of tinted paper between the inked plate and the base paper, effectively creating a tinted look to the artwork that brings it into sharp relief on the base sheet, which in this case will be Somerset. So it’s really all about finding a couple of uninterrupted days to master the editioning. How hard can that be!
Studio News / September 2022
I've just completed a new Chime / cerulean crop edition for a collector in Canada. Courtesy of Avida Mohseni and the fabulous Avi Gallery in Ontario. I’ve spent a little while rebalancing the colours, and working on the colour profiles, so it has a little more vitality than before, quite a lot more in fact! Loving the new Fotospeed metallic lustre paper I’m experimenting with too, it seems really radiant in use.
Sennen / EPC edition #22 dispatched
I just wanted to wrap up the week with a little Print Club news. I've completed the summer edition, #22, which is titled Sennen / EPC. I've also ordered some new packing tubes for the piece, which I believe will be here on Monday, so I'm very much hoping to have the work in the post to Print Club members on Monday or Tuesday, all being well.
Sennen / proofing the edition
I’ve been working on this new drawing on and off for a couple of months now, and feel it merits some kind of outing, so I’m going to proof it, think about sizes, and make it into a piece for the Print Club. I think it’ll work best on a flat matt paper, so I’m going to try it on the Hahnemühle 305gsm 100% cotton rag, at least to start with.
I started drawing this piece in response to my XGen CV series, sometime back in the Spring. Like XGen, it takes on the idea of creating an underlying grid structure and then building some kind of framework around it, that pushes the geometry in some unexpected and hopefully quite lyrical ways.
Work in progress / EPC edition #22
Seems like a little while since I last updated you on my studio work here, so I thought I’d stop and take a moment to get in touch. I have to say that the winter months have been quite challenging with all the awful news about the war in Ukraine. I think the combination of Covid, Brexit and the looming cost of living crisis have also created some real headwinds for the art world, or at least the part that I inhabit.
There’s an interesting issue surrounding the confidence required to keep at something each day, as studio practice demands. Essentially you need to feel that the challenge of spending time working on the drawings has some value in the big scheme of things, if only at a fairly ephemeral level…