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Wearing a big smile on my face ever since hearing about being awarded a prize for the Green Door Printmaking / Derby Print Open 2018....

It's not until July but I've just heard so am ready to spread the news already. One of my drypoint monoprints 'Coast' has been accepted...

Visiting a friend who lives in Guernsey for the weekend, we took the ferry for the short trip to Herm Island. Despite the sea being as...

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It was Ian in the workshop who asked whether I had painted anything recently. Just that one comment obviously started something. It was...

Delivering work to 44AD Studio in Bath ready for their Edition 4: machine and mercurial exhibition; a short exhibition running from the...

It's not that copper plates are so expensive they need to be justified, it is more that experimentation is fun. Having used the main side...

The copper plates etched at home the other day (see previous post) were taken into the workshop today to print. The oil-based relief...

Copper plate etching, making the plate.

Another visit to Jane's studio with Hayley, and strangely enough, there we were both on a beach theme. It was all about pebbles this week...

Is there no end to the fun to be had with designing these tiny squares of drypoints? It seems not. I'd only bought around 8 boxes to put...

Drypoint printmaking

It seems the main difference between these three is the context in which they are set. Without a reference point, it is hard to gauge...

Drypoint on 250 gsm Somerset This plate was printed on two different papers which gave surprisingly different results. The Somerset...

Hand-made drypoint print looking at an abstract of the south field in winter.

Frome Art Society has a smashing range of original art for sale in the Long Gallery, Black Swan Arts. Hop on over Thursday mornings to meet

Working with experimental archival paper, a test to see if it was good for printmaking.

Printmaking using leaves and seed heads.

Sketch with tape The land's contours show up more when lined by sprouting furrows, the long rectangles echoed in catkins opening to...

Tilly and I have started walking in a different area as the usual tracks have turned to mud in the February lanes. The ivy-strewn copse...