ALL KIND OF INKS
New this year
For Daws 2022 the range of inks, methods and surfaces has been extended from textured ink works drawn with the knife shown in 2021 to include linocuts, collagraph prints and plates, drawings and paintings in inks based on water, oil, acrylic and alcohol.
Original cards are are on sale and rather than increase non recyclable waste, new cards are displayed unwrapped with recycled enclosures available for purchaser's use, and where possible, portfolios are displayed in recycled wrappiers.
Many of the framed works, already inexpensive and around 25x20 cm, are most pleasingly displayed in twos or threes, so I am this year offering reductions for multibuys e.g.three £40 pictures for £100.
Viewing
Many of the newest works are small, (image sizes circa 15x10cm before mounting) and, because developing methods using different surfaces and inks produce unique effects depending on light and angle of view, like the textured works they cannot be appreciated properly in photographs so must be seen.
Media and methods are specified in the visitors' catalogue and I am glad to explain and demonstrate them to those who are interested.
Visiting
Don't miss the iris and roses along the side of venue 69!
Hand sanitiser and catalogues available on entry.
During opening hours please ring bell and enter... if it's been quiet I may be working in the garden at the back where you are welcome to relax after viewing.
I look forward to welcoming you to the light, well ventilated rooms of my home and studio. In room 1 you will find collograph prints and plates, textured pictures and linocuts combined with mixed media. In room 2 are alcohol ink paintings and cat linocuts, each one unique, and ink drawings. In the hall you pass some textured inks you may have missed last year, and more are in the studio where cards and small new items are displayed.
Please come, either during opening hours 11 to 5 Friday-Monday between 14th and 29th May, or email me at [email protected] or phone 01258489612 to visit at your convenience.
The following is an explanitory excerpt from the DAWs 2021 catalogue about the textured works:
At DAWs 2018 I showed a few collograph prints, but had already realised that what interested me most was the plates themselves, and especially the potential of drawing with a knife. Manipulating the board and adding materials provided tangible texture as well as image and inks offered subtle colour. I began to produce plates framed as pictures in their own right, initially using only the knife, printing inks and clear varnish, gradually textured papers and finds from lockdown walks were introduced, some leaves to read as trees in landscapes, others combined with bark, lichen and seed heads on inked textured papers to produce more abstract pictures;
By now I had experimented with oil paint and introduced various drawing inks, but having found some inks hand-made from natural pigments like woad these predominate in later textured works. Subtly inked papers can suggest natural textures when incorporated into a cut landscape, while using larger pieces of inked paper with texture of differing scale suggests distance. Textured paper can form a base for abstract paintings, or replace cards as 'postable' pictures.
New this year
For Daws 2022 the range of inks, methods and surfaces has been extended from textured ink works drawn with the knife shown in 2021 to include linocuts, collagraph prints and plates, drawings and paintings in inks based on water, oil, acrylic and alcohol.
Original cards are are on sale and rather than increase non recyclable waste, new cards are displayed unwrapped with recycled enclosures available for purchaser's use, and where possible, portfolios are displayed in recycled wrappiers.
Many of the framed works, already inexpensive and around 25x20 cm, are most pleasingly displayed in twos or threes, so I am this year offering reductions for multibuys e.g.three £40 pictures for £100.
Viewing
Many of the newest works are small, (image sizes circa 15x10cm before mounting) and, because developing methods using different surfaces and inks produce unique effects depending on light and angle of view, like the textured works they cannot be appreciated properly in photographs so must be seen.
Media and methods are specified in the visitors' catalogue and I am glad to explain and demonstrate them to those who are interested.
Visiting
Don't miss the iris and roses along the side of venue 69!
Hand sanitiser and catalogues available on entry.
During opening hours please ring bell and enter... if it's been quiet I may be working in the garden at the back where you are welcome to relax after viewing.
I look forward to welcoming you to the light, well ventilated rooms of my home and studio. In room 1 you will find collograph prints and plates, textured pictures and linocuts combined with mixed media. In room 2 are alcohol ink paintings and cat linocuts, each one unique, and ink drawings. In the hall you pass some textured inks you may have missed last year, and more are in the studio where cards and small new items are displayed.
Please come, either during opening hours 11 to 5 Friday-Monday between 14th and 29th May, or email me at [email protected] or phone 01258489612 to visit at your convenience.
The following is an explanitory excerpt from the DAWs 2021 catalogue about the textured works:
At DAWs 2018 I showed a few collograph prints, but had already realised that what interested me most was the plates themselves, and especially the potential of drawing with a knife. Manipulating the board and adding materials provided tangible texture as well as image and inks offered subtle colour. I began to produce plates framed as pictures in their own right, initially using only the knife, printing inks and clear varnish, gradually textured papers and finds from lockdown walks were introduced, some leaves to read as trees in landscapes, others combined with bark, lichen and seed heads on inked textured papers to produce more abstract pictures;
By now I had experimented with oil paint and introduced various drawing inks, but having found some inks hand-made from natural pigments like woad these predominate in later textured works. Subtly inked papers can suggest natural textures when incorporated into a cut landscape, while using larger pieces of inked paper with texture of differing scale suggests distance. Textured paper can form a base for abstract paintings, or replace cards as 'postable' pictures.