Printing

 

'The Sound of 3 a.m, Ochre,Blue'- Linocut on Fabriano paper - 2020

        I did not do any printing during my Fine Art degree, well I did but only a morning. I decided at the time that it was not for me as there was lots of cleaning up involved, something I am not naturally drawn to. I took it up earlier in the year and although I have got used to the cleaning up element of it there are parts of the process that I still resist. Hats off to people who can do print runs of 50 but I just cannot do it and get bored after about 2 and the only thing I would learn about doing large editions is that I am not good with craft based boredom. And so variations are what I do, not a better method but one that suits me.

'The Sound of 3 a.m, variation 1' - Linocut on Fabriano paper - 2020

        These works, 'The Sound of 3 a.m', is based on an ink drawing I did earlier on in the year. A freehand drawing, it's meandering, speculative and searching line indicative of the early morning, sleepless time when it was produced. The work is a reaction to grief, to regret, to loss. The line wants to settle wants to form something solid. Art for me has to some extent always been a kind of therapy a way of communicating. I am not sure if there was a conscious intent to convey a want, a need to hold, hear and feel something other than the thump in the chest uncertainty that I was feeling at the time. I think it has to some extent been successful in this regard, it helped me anyway and perhaps this is the best it can do. 

Love is all