COLLAGRAPH

COLLAGRAPH, CARBORUNDUM AND DRYPOINT ETCHING

THE STONES AT STONEHENGE AND AVEBURY are ancient. Believed to have been built around 4 thousand years ago, they have stood (and fallen), open to erosion, attack and scrutiny and yet they still hold a fascination.

This series of collagraph printmaking focuses on the feel and experience of the place. It seems they have been to describe the solar system as it was seen all those years ago by fine engineers and so I have brought the skies down to meet the stones in this fashion.

STANDING STONE

Mercury Transit 3/20

Collagraph Mercury nears the sun, ready to pass across its vast surface like a boat in the cosmos.

Sun snake

Collagraph on 250 gsm Fabriano The sun snake winds around, passing the year as it goes.

Balance

Collagraph Oil-based relief printing inks on 250 gsm Fabriano. The stone were part sculpture, part canvas on which to describe the skies. This last piece take the idea a step further, removing the stone completely and looking to the stars.

Celestial pull

This very square stone stand next to a longer, thinner stone in the Avebury stone complex. Drypoint etching on 250 gsm Fabriano

Power

Drypoint etching Using oil-based relief printing inks on 250 gsm Fabriano.

portrait of a stone # 2

oil-based relief printing inks on 30 gsm 100 % cotton paper Avebury

Portrait of a stone

A3 oil-based relief printing inks on 300 gsm 100% cotton fabricated paper A stone at Avebury

Avebury

Collagraph showing phases of celestial bodies against the stones OIl-based relief printing inks on 250 gsm Fabriano

Mercury transit

collagraph on 250 gsm Fabriano

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STONE

Stone, heading

Accolades and Crtique

Fantastic! One moment it is an abstract, then it seems like prehistoric art, and suddenly I am transported to outer space. Other than being dizzy, I really like the form and colors! - Jeff Reeve

SEE

WHAT COMES OUT

OF THE BAG

STONE AS CLAY

Scultptures of the stones

In The Balance Collagraph on Fabriano	Mill stone Based on a stone standing within a circle at Avebury, this being the female. Collagraph with monoprint detailing	Moon stone collagraph	Collagraph	In the round Two of the ceramic sculptures to support the stone series
Trio of stones Ceramic stones made in support of the print series.	Ceramic stone Using B292 (of course)! This is a side view, showing the lichen marks running up the flank.	First stone Small ceramic sculpture to compliment the print run series.	The first 'test glaze'. B292 green /grey ribbled with some removal and some overpainted to achieve a light blue and white lined effect.	Just sculpted Designed on an actual stone in Avebury, this is the same size as one of the larger prints.
WIP Forming clay	Reference using a monoprint to create the same / similar in clay	B292 The colour