Stellify 3 / EPC / Experimental Print Club Edition #10

I’m just completing the first of what I hope will be quite a few new Print Club editions for 2019. It’s a little behind the spring equinox, but nevertheless I hope it may represent a small celebration of the lengthening days, and increasing light levels as we head into the summer. It’s an exciting time of year to my mind.

If you’d like to receive this latest edition by post, please do join the club before Sunday night, 31st March, as I’ll be sending out the edition to club members in the post next week - https://chuckelliott.com/experimental-print-club-list-01

Print Club editions are only available on the date they are printed, and the edition length is determined by the number of club members on the day, currently 8! So I hope the pieces may become quite collectible as the project continues. You can subscribe and / or unsubscribe whenever you like, it’s an open ended opportunity for people to support the studio, and receive editions throughout the year.

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If you’d like to see more works from the Print Club, the first nine editions are on my website here - https://chuckelliott.com/experimental-print-club-list-01

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This edition is the latest derivation of my Stellify series, which seems to have an almost limitless ability to deliver distinctly differing images as it progresses. The first two Stellify editions are listed on my website here -

Stellify / ONE - https://chuckelliott.com/digital-drawings-03/stellify-one-teal-base

Stellify / TWO - https://chuckelliott.com/digital-drawings-03/stellify-two-cerise-glaze

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There’s a certain CGI / gamer / spiderman / cityscape kind of feel to this piece, which I have to say is not intentional. In fact, the image is derived from a study of the fourteenth stellation of an icosahedron, or at least an origami version of it which I built with my son Corin’s help a year or two back, and which has fascinated me ever since.

With a certain level of distortion and multiple overlaid iterations, the final drawing seems to have some of the language of a Japanese woodblock print, reinterpreted with a kind of manga feel. So be it. If you’ve been following my work over the years you’ll know that I’m interested in the idea of being led by the content and the process, rather than trying to steer the work in a particular direction or forcing a particular outcome.

I like the idea of a more serendipitous process, a kind of conversation, as the work develops. It’s a method that seems to create more interesting results, at least as far as I’m concerned.

I’ll look forward to posting more Print Club news as the year progresses…