Hammerton Hall reduction linocut print
An historic farm in Lancashire, this subject arose from the photographic work of Brian Heyes.
Something about the brooding fells and the house’s many angles spoke to me. Following a small lino cut of the subject I scaled up and considered a multi-plate or reduction piece.
Here’s the ‘final’ design on the block, in reality changes will be made all along the way.
From this point the highlights of window frames and metal work are cut first. After that the sky iscut – clouds and their highlights, light through trees and highlights elsewhere on the stones and foreground grasses.
The work is now in it’s 3rd state. With the next cut the fells will be made distinct, and then the detailed and more contrasting layers of walls, house and trees can take shape.
Linocut of Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
This is a subject I’ve been playing with for a while now. Initial sketches were developed as a small drypoint test piece, which I’ll be reworking as a distinct piece once this is lino version is complete.
The proofs for this have shown a lot of promise (there have been about four so far), and while this version will be finished and an edition produced I plan on making a slightly larger cut of the same view down the line.
Linocut card design – wild garlic flowers
A morning walk inspired me to produce a square-format card design based on wild garlic flowers, just emerging. With some slight refinements to the finer lines this will go into a small run of 4 x 4 inch cards for the print shop.
Update: the first run of wild garlic 4 inch cards is now available on Etsy.
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