"The artist...is also a born adventurer. His explorations, unlike those of a tourist, are rewarded by the discovery of beauty spots unmentioned in the guide books, and with tireless curiosity and an exceptional proneness to wonderment, he will come upon objects of remarkable interest overlooked or even shunned by more disciplined observers."

Augustus John, R.A.




Sunday 30 June 2013

Colours 3 and 4


Third colour is an ochre/green printed across the foreground. To represent the vegetation showing through the thawing snow.


After that next is a darker blue colour for the deeper shadows on the snow.

Sunday 23 June 2013

Winter on the moor




The first two colours on the next print. And still continuing with the winter theme of the previous print. This is the moorland south of Holmfirth at the head of the Don Valley. Apologies for the dodgy quality of the photography on the first picture.

Sunday 9 June 2013

Heavy Snow


Heavy Snow near Edlington
8 Colour Reduction Linocut. 270mm x 180mm. Edition of 10.

A final dark colour on the stems of the foreground vegetation completes the latest print.

Monday 3 June 2013

New Gallery

My work is now available at the Church Street Gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex. A gallery specialising in the work of contemporary printmakers.

17 Church Street
Saffron Walden
Essex
CB10 1JW
tel : 01799 522947
Church Street Gallery

Sunday 2 June 2013

Three more colours


The next three colours bring the print almost to a finish. First is a grey to define the distant woodlands.

Then a darker shade of the same colour and finally the full composition is revealed.


Next is a darker tone of the yellow ochre used earlier to give some more form to the foreground vegetation.


All that is left to do now is some final darks in the foreground.