David Thomas “Five Fishes” 2014 Paperlitho silkcreen (Manhatttan Graphics Center )Liz Marraffino “My Cave of Dreams series 2″ 2015 etching (Manhatttan Graphics Center )
Fish and Chips’, Screenprint by Sophy Thomas (GPCoop)
‘Musco viridi tinea’ by Cath Bloomfield
‘Geranium Pratense’ drypoint by Alison Sloggett
Here are some of the prints from both sides of the ocean that took part in an exchange this year , the prints were shown in cirencester in march , and the prints from the gloucestershire will be shown in manhattan in June, sadly though cant quite afford to pop over the atlantic to atttend the private view!
A great range of prints , you can see more at the tumblr site i have set up here!
This is a detail of one of three (soon to be four) large copper plates ( about A2 size) that I am working on at the moment, and the first proof of it after etching to add more lines. they are going well if slowly!
I have tried to exaggerate the perspectives of the trees to emphasise some of the extraordinary shapes they make, and have been using a new process for me, sugar lift then spit biting.
I am finding myself enjoying dry point marks much more than normal etching marks on copper, this was a little trial to see how pressure effects the line quality, and I quite liked the outcome, and I could work into it more perhaps adding tone, what do you think?
Here is the completed print from the previous post, of the butterflies.
Called ‘Summer time’ as their little bodies are the remains and reminders of summertime, much too fragile for the winter !
Alison Sloggett Printmaker 