Blake's Lock - a teaser...

These are details from nine pieces that I have been working on for Artikinesis' Blake's Lock exhibition (17 September to 2 October). I've been considering the surface of the water and thinking about the Victorian turbines...

Fun with Whiteboards

This year's first whiteboard featuring whiteboard drawings of a selection of my own paintings

A sketch of the street outside the studio

It was raining.
This one stayed inside, got wiped, and redrawn on a piece of A4 paper...

Most recent, inspired by woodcut and several other things lying around the studio.

Boxed Woodcuts: Knotted and Kneel

Boxed 2 - Crouch - woodcut

Boxed is turning into a series. Here is the second woodcut - with the woodblock in its clean, unprinted state, then with ink on it...  and finally, a slightly disppointing test print (hand pressed in haste).

Unfortunately, the wood of the block for Boxed developed two flaws and I'm not happy with the resulting white lines across the image. That block has been retired and there are no truly satisfactory prints.

Boxed - woodcut print

Today, I particpated in a multi-artist printing workshop at City Arts. This is a 28 cm square woodcut created for the occasion; I cut the block yesterday afternoon and fnished it this morning. The design was drawn directly onto the block from imagnation.

There will be no more than 10 prints made from this block.