‘Lure Fish Kitchen’ wall art/signwriting
A let’s say ‘challenging’ surface of reclaimed brickwork last week for Philip Kendall’s new ‘Lure Fish Kitchen’ restaurant near Kentish Town, London.
‘Post Nude’ postcard linocut
A local art gallery, The Horsebridge Community & Arts Centre in Whitstable, where I will be exhibiting in May, has recently opened a new gallery (Gallery 3) and the curator Sarah Banville has challenged artists to produce an original work of art on a postcard. The local post sorting office is in danger of closing and in a double-edged benefit, the exhibition of tiny (A6) originals will not only make for interesting viewing for the public, but also for the lucky postman delivering the postcards en route to The Horsebridge. I already had a pack of Winsor & Newton Cotman 300gsm postcards with a semi-rough surface, great for painting watercolours on but not ideal for printing on, as the pitted surface needs a hard pressing to push the ink into them. (Thin paper is usually the substrate of choice for most linoprinters). I had to set the roller printing press so firmly in fact, that the lino left an embossed effect on the card. In the print shown, you can see the patchy areas where …
love this peter. you do great work. http://www.wayupstream.com/2015/03/bricks-and-mortar.html
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