Artwork description:

Communication Breakdown is a hand printed reduction Lino Print, it is one of an edition of 7 prints. It is sold with a cream mount and a black wooden frame.

I found a photograph of a derelict phone box and post box and liked the image. It was only when I started carving the Lino that I really started to think about the picture it was going to make. I remember when I left home in 1985 having to use a telephone box to ring home to speak to my Mum and Dad, and keeping in touch with letters and cards to friends. How times change. Both the telephone box and post box are still design icons though.

Reduction prints are made using one block of Lino to print all the colours. The image I want to create is drawn onto the Lino, if it has writing or a "right way round" then I have to make sure what I put on the Lino is a mirror image of what I want the print to end up like.

I then start by carving away the parts of the Lino that I want to remain the colour of the paper (for me this is normally white) out of the Lino block. Once this is complete I ink the block and print it. This process is repeated until all the colours have been printed.

As each print is hand made there are slight variations between each print making them unique.

Communication Breakdown is approximately 10 cm wide and 15 cm high and is printed on a slightly larger piece of paper using Schmincke water based ink on Somerset Satin 300GSM paper.

The print is numbered, titled and signed on the front. It is sold unmounted and unframed.

The image will be sent securely packaged by Royal Mail.

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