Spike Print Studio / Intaglio etching with Martyn Grimmer
I’ve been enjoying expanding and improving my working knowledge of intaglio printmaking techniques under the brilliant tutelage of Martyn Grimmer at Spike Print Studio here in Bristol.
The studio offers open access to some fabulous printmaking presses, all set within what must be a Festival of Britain era daylight studio with curtain wall glazing looking out over the new cut.
It’s a beautiful place to spend some time. The pieces I’ve been making are dry point and aquatint etchings using sugar lift and other techniques, but ultimately I think I’m going to move on to photopolymer etching, in order to produce a new series of digital drawings realised as inked intaglio prints. Watch this space for more images of that series.
I’ll look forward to posting a little more news about the project soon.
With best regards,
Chuck Elliott
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