PRINTS IN DEVELOPMENT 2021

This page is intended as documentation.

At the beginning of the course having previously done a small amount of etching I was keen to take advantage of the printing facilities and expertise available at CSM and began etching in the first term. In spring 2020 prior to lockdown I had intended to spend as much time as possible in the print workshops learning and experimenting with various printing techniques. Eventually when lockdown restriction were eased in spring 2021 I was able to get back into the workshop to continue experimenting. The prints shown here are experiments undertaken mixing and combining a variety of print making techniques and processes including etching with both soft and hard grounds. Using intaglio as both a positive and negative and combining this with relief printing, collagraph, carborundum, blind embossing, mono print, sugar lift and aquatint. Through this practical research I have become interested in lithography, which involves drawing and making marks directly onto stone, from which a print is pulled. Although the technique was only invented around 300 years ago, there seems to me to be a poetic link between creating and literally pulling images from stone and the cave drawings of our ancestors and urban graffiti. Printing is most definitely an area of research I intend to pursue and develop, combing with other processes in mixed media works.

Below is a selection of the prints made during these experiments.                                                                                            Click on image to enlarge and scroll through gallery.