This page showcases the works that stand out for me this year. As the year progresses, pieces will be added and, as I set an arbitrary limit of four a year, some will be taken away.
My selections for previous years are linked to at the bottom of the page.
Close Work
Man at Work
This is an experimental, postcard-sized reduction linocut. I'd got an idea for a larger print featuring the men in orange, so this was a kind of test for shape and colour. Time was dressing in orange singled you out as belonging to some mystical cult, but now it makes you a working-class hero. The colours here were red, yellow, blue. I love how black the final layer came out. I was very very tired when I made this print and forgot until months later that I had done some on A5 paper as well as on A6 postcards.
Give us this day…
This print started from a drawing I did a few years ago. From time to time I go through sketch books looking for things to kick start me. I’m always a sucker for considering everyday activities as a form of prayer. A case of seeing the divine in small things, of feeling blessed on waking in the morning. A bit like art, really.
Artist's bedroom, Cemex
This is the second print in my "views of Cemex" series. I did a simplified version of Van Gogh's bedroom with my own chair and pictures on the wall. Then the shadowy shape of the cement works through the window. Since doing the first print I have been struck by the fondness people have for the cement works locally. People like to see it represented.
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