Artwork description:

This multi-layer reduction Lino print captures the quiet stillness of boats drawn up on a Dorset beach in midwinter, just as the pale sun begins to sink behind the sea. I have used soft, muted tones—cool greys, dusky blues, and faint greens and yellows—to try to evoke the chill of the season and the fading light. The layered carving technique brings depth and texture to the scene, with each reduction revealing more of the delicate interplay between shadow and light. The boats, resting silently on the pebbled shore, are cradled by the gentle curve of the bay and the subtle glow of the British winter sunset.

A reduction linocut is a totally hand made print. No machines are used. Only one piece of Lino is used throughout the process and so no prints can be reproduced.

I draw the image I want to create on the Lino, in reverse. Using carving tools I take away all the lightest parts which will be the colour of the the paper, I then ink up the Lino with a colour and press this onto some thick printing paper. Anything I want to be that colour I carve away and ink up the next colour and so the process goes until the image appears.

This print went through this process many times, to achieve the final image. I used water based inks and the paper is Italian Fabriano Rosapina.

The printed area is approximately 40.5cm x 30.5 cm and the paper size is approximately 46.5cm x 36.5.5 cm.

Materials used:

Lino, inks, rollers, press, paper, cutting tools

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