The Progress Of A New Collagraph Landscape Print

Updated August 2024

Spring has sprung! The garden is full of daffodils, the bees are out foraging and the birds are really giving it a lot of welly at the moment. In the meantime I’ve been squirrelling away in the studio.

New work continues in the studio for the two exhibitions coming up at Eastgate Studios & Gallery in Beverley, East Yorkshire and Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery. The photos below show the early stages of the latest new plates under development. There is a brief pause while I fill orders for some the National Trust shops. I supply Lindisfarne Castle, Seahouses, Cragside and Wallington Hall as well as The Sill National Discovery Centre in the Northumberland National Park.

I’m hoping I’ll be able to get back to it next week and get another couple of weeks in before we depart for our daughter’s wedding celebration in Sicily in May.

A close up detail of a new landscape art print -the winter trees and coping stones on the stone wall inspired by a walk in winter close to the Military road that follows Hadrian’s Wall.

The two plates - the background and a smaller shaped plate of an owl in flight. I pressed grasses into the wet gesso and then lifted them out leaving the impression.

A detail close up of the owl collagraph plate sitting on the background plate that forms the wintery landscape backdrop, walking along the vallum close to the Military road.

First proof of a new print. The trees needed beefing up a bit. See below.

More close up detail of the owl plate made with carborundum on top of the background plate made using scored mount board and gesso manipulated with a palette knife.

After colour was introduced and printing with plant flower heads and seed heads.

A close up detail of one of the variable prints in the edition (in colour) of which there are currently three.