Tekton X26 / gilt liner
Tekton X26 / gilt liner is a limited edition metallic pigment print on Hahnemühle 340gsm 100% cotton fine art paper; individually signed and editioned with a unique catalogue raisonné number for guaranteed authenticity.
Edition of 8, plus 2 APs
5 panels ⋅ 160cm H x 128cm W
Dimensions can be varied on request
Tekton X26 / EPC
Tekton X26 is the 35th work for my Experimental Print Club. I editioned the work in March 2026 at my studio in Bristol.
I have a tendency to store myriad mental images of geometries that I spot on excursions away from the studio, that I immediately know I’d like to work with at some point in the future; ideas for form, volume and line that sit in my semi-concious, gestating, until for some inexplicable reason they become foregrounded, and I start working on them.
In the best cases that process leads to a series of studies and drawings that hopefully coalesce into a new edition, or series of works as the drawings are progressed across the coming days and weeks. The underlying geometry for this latest study, Tekton, is one such idea, a set of tiled forms that I think I originally saw in southern Spain a few years back, that I’ve wanted to work on ever since, but with no particular idea of how the form might be transformed into a completed study.
Tekton X26 audio notes
I’ve been thinking about making some new audio notes for this latest piece of work. I thought it might be a nice way to present some new ideas.
There’s an underlying geometry which is really based on a tiled X form, which spins out from the middle. The tiling concept is something that you see all over the Islamic world, and in countries I’ve visited recently like Spain and the Alhambra.
There’s a beauty in that kind of underlying geometry which is very two dimensional and decorative, and allows you to have a kind of tiled form on which to hang colour, glaze and pattern. So I wanted to do a piece around those kind of themes, that maybe could look at a very two dimensional approach to image making; a little bit different from the normal more three dimensional sculptural forms that I might draw.