Artwork description:

The lithographs ‘Reaching out’ 1&2 (this is number 1) are images of different organic shapes, lines and colours. The abstract images are directly inspired by drawings I made over the years of colourful lines and shapes, where only the relationship between the different elements and the colour matters.

In this image the edge of the blue shape and the crayon lines are soft, like in drawings on paper. I draw every morning trying to stay playful and free, like young children do, without much thought of the outcome or aiming for a result.

Lithographic printmaking techniques can reproduce drawn marks in the most direct way of all the classic fine art printmaking techniques, where processes are involve.

For this print I have been drawing directly onto a rough aluminium plate and printing from this surface keeps the image raw and direct.

A friend’s comment to the series of prints made this way was: “… they reveal the vulnerability of the process that created them”.

I hope they invite the viewer to find their own narrative in this image.

The prints were made from aluminium plates and printed on acid free printmaking paper on a direct press in my studio in Brighton.

Materials used:

aluminium plate, printing inks, printing paper,

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