
[looking in, from the outside]
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[stacked fragments]
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[wall fragments]
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[intaglio print]
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[intaglio print]
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[blind embossing on paper]
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[intaglio collagraph prints]
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from the imperfect/circle project: liminal, on the brink, success, failure, beautiful, ugly, perfect, flawed, incomplete, whole, insignificant, valued, sacred, discarded, lost, saved, broken, mended. strange relics…
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one of the lichenscapes etchings, proofed in colour…

[etchings, proofs on various papers]
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another road trip; subsequently did some while looking out of the window sketches to while away the seated hours, in what could possibly be the smallest functioning sketchbook, at only 10cm square…

[miniature sketchbook, with tesco pen]

[miniature sketchbook pages]

[field and sky drawing one]

[field and sky drawing two]

[field and sky drawing three]

[field and sky drawing four]
I am hoping that drawing directly from the landscape, sat within it or just passing through it (as here, partly from observation and partly memory) will in time inspire a new direction in my work… I like the sombre mood of dark clouds against a rolling landscape…
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Here are the first working proofs from some small etchings that I have been pursuing since the lichen drawings… looking a little like lichen, or perhaps any micro-organisms, in colonies of moss, mould, algae…

Even after all the photographs of lichens (I must have taken two hundred or more) and then the pen drawings, I begun these etchings with no visual references in front of me (and no plan to illustrate a species), prefering to see what initial textures and tones I could create, working from memory… I like the discipline of a slow, considered, meticulous process – etching seems the perfect medium in which to combine delicate line with texture… here are two of the initial trial proofs… printed in a warm black… I need to rework them in more detail later in the week and experiment with colour…



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It’s curious to think that many years ago I used to pore over books such as this one on earth as seen from space (published in 1981), as a source of inspiration… these satellite images of the Himalyas were taken in March 1977 and December 1978 by Landsat spacecraft…

and am inspired by these old textbooks too…

[pages showing section of the ileum or small intestine]

[page on lichens, showing a cross section]
The only issue with printmaking is the evidential traces of concentrated work – that is, printmakers hands…

[self portrait with hands]
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