Handmade lithographs - printed at Northern Print Studio, North Sheilds and at the former Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria.
In the spring of 1996, whilst working away at Lowick House Print Workshop for a couple of weeks, I was trying, unsuccessfully, to print a flat green as a first colour for a lithograph of a hillside with two trees. As is often the case with printmaking and all its tricky processes, it wasn't going how I'd hoped. I couldn't get the ink to print as I wanted - I was doing something wrong. In frustration I went for a long walk over the nearby fells. Just before getting back to the workshop it occurred to me that, with this image, I wasn't particularly interested in the ground below the line of the hill . . . and Couple (i) (see foot of this page) and a great many more similarly minimal lithographs were born!
In the mid 1990s I enjoyed a three month residency on the Falkland Islands. I feel sure that the vast open space of the South Atlantic is somewhere behind these pictures, but then so too is the landscape of east Cumbria where I live and work. On overcast days the powerful presence of Cross Fell diminishes and birds and trees take on a greater significance. The many thousands of thorn trees are truly wonderful in their great variety of shapes and sizes - some gnarled and bent by the elements and others with seemingly charmed lives.
An edition of 85 with 10 artist's proofs. Printed, signed and numbered by the artist in 1997 at Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria, UK on John Purcell 285gsm mould-made 100% rag paper.
This lithograph is no longer available from the website.
A smaller reproduction of this image, unsigned and uneditioned, is available via the ‘Reproductions’ pages.
An edition of 85 with 15 artist's proofs. Printed, signed and numbered by the artist in 1999 at Northern Print Studio, Tyne and Wear, UK on John Purcell 285gsm mould-made 100% rag paper. Commissioned by Cumbria County Council for their Contemporary Print Loan Scheme.
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An edition of 85 with 20 artist's proofs. Although drawn in 1998 this 2nd state of Further South was printed, signed and numbered (by the artist) between 1998 at Northern Print Workshop, North Tyneside and 2001 at Blencarn, Cumbria, UK. Printed on John Purcell 285gsm mould-made 100% rag paper.
An edition of 85 with 10 artist's proofs. Printed, signed and numbered by the artist in 1997 at Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria, UK on John Purcell 285gsm mould-made 100% rag paper.
A smaller reproduction of this image, unsigned and uneditioned, is available. Go to PRICES/BUY ONLINE and then to Reproductions.
An edition of 85 with 20 artist's proofs. Printed, signed and numbered by the artist in 1999 at Northern Print Studio, Tyne and Wear, UK on John Purcell 285gsm mould-made 100% rag paper. Commissioned by Cumbria County Council for their Contemporary Print Loan Scheme.
This lithograph is no longer available from the website.
An edition of 50 with 15 artist's proofs. Printed, ssigned and numbered by the artist in 1996 at Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria on john Purcell 285gsm mould-made 100% rag paper. Lowick House Printmaking Residency 1996 - sponsored by Robert Horne Paper Ltd., Monarch Chemicals Ltd. and Abacus (Colour Printers) Ltd.
This lithograph is no longer available from the website.
A smaller reproduction of this image, unsigned and uneditioned, is available via the 'Reproductions' pages.