inspired by seaweed
Prints
Printmaking is the experimental umbrella expression I have embraced. Strangely, it was the magic of 3D printing that was the portal to this new world. An induction session on collagraphs, followed by lithography,frottage, mokolito and aquatint, preceded the magic of photo polymer gravure, late in 2024. Then, early in 2025, I had a letter press induction which has taken me down a totally different rabbit hole!
Nautical view. Collagraph on voile.
Cruciform laminarias. Mark making on ink. Oil on newsprint.
An aquatint on hard ground from the essay White Shadows. Oil on Snowdon paper.
Braided thong weed abstract. Oil on Snowdon paper.
Two-tone photo polymer gravure in blue and burnt Sienna of a Laminaria Digitata on Fabriano paper with typeset title.
Intaglio photopolymer print with an offset relief frottage of dried Furbellows. Intaglio ink on black cartridge paper.
Seaweed negative print. Oil on tissue paper.
Dried seaweed negative mono-print. Oil on Snowdon paper.
Two-tone blue and burnt Sienna photo polymer gravure. Intaglio ink on Fabriano paper. Gestural mark making.
Intaglio photopolymer print overlaid with an off-set relief frottage of dried laminaria digitata, with letter press printed poem 'Saltern Cove'. Including the transparency printing, there are 5 printing processes on this final piece. Intaglio ink on Hahnemueler paper.
Intaglio photopolymer print of Laminaria digitata with an off-set relief frottage of dried Laminaria. Intaglio ink on black cartridge paper.
Photopolymer gravure of Egg wrack in Charbonnel burnt Sienna, on Hahnemuler paper.
A series of 4,so far, of photopolymer gravures in Charbonnel black and Intaglio Prussian blue, on Awagami paper