Let Loose (2024)Linocut
by Mark Howard Jones

A bold, colourful linocut print of a person and dog, full of vibrant lines, textures, and shapes. This humorous piece celebrates freedom, moving on, and the joy of retiring from my art teaching career to become a full-time artist and printmaker. A few years into this new chapter, I feel energised and excited by the creative freedom it brings. Let Loose captures that shift—playful, confident, and a little bit rebellious. It reflects my “devil-may-care” attitude and a more assured state of mind. For me, this artwork is all about joy, possibility, and the thrill of letting go and leaping into something new.

Selected for the Small but Mighty Exhibition, Bankside September 2024 and the Society of Wood Engravers 87th Annual Exhibition 2025.

Paper Size: 29.7 x 21.0cm
Image size 21.0 x 15.0cm

These unique prints are numbered, titled and signed in pencil, protected with glassine tissue paper and sealed in a cellophane pocket with foam coreboard support. Carefully and lovingly packed in a stiff cardboard box, insured and tracked.

Each print is hand printed using the traditional method of burnishing with a baren and has subtle variations in colour, tone and marks. The print is not supplied in a frame.

Materials used:

Calico Safewash relief printing inks, Recycled acid free paper, hessian backed linoleum.

Details:

• Linocut on Paper
• From a limited edition of 75
• Size: 29 x 21 x 1cm (unframed) / 21 x 15cm (actual image size)
• Signed and numbered on the front
• Style: Graphic
• Subject: Animals and birds

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