A new adventure-Limited edition prints

Funny how doors open into new ventures.Over the last ten years whenever it's been suggested that I might consider doing prints of my paintings, I have deferred on the basis that the examples I have seen are in the main flat and lifeless, with colour reproduction that was generally pretty hit and miss.

And then over the summer a conversation with Rohini, a design journalist and interior stylist http://rohiniwahi.com/wp/    who had featured one of my paintings on her blog some years ago, convinced me to dip my in the water and explore doing a one off print for her.

The results has been a complete revelation to me. I've been working with the fine art printers Harwood King who have been really impressive at each stage of the process, not only getting this first print done, but in advising on the set of prints I have now gone on to do - images of which I've added below.

So here I am, now doing prints, which I really never thought I would, and enjoying it!

Morning Mist

Atmosphere: Atlantic Light

Glitter & Glower

Each print is a signed limited edition of 50, giclee and silkscreen on 330grms Somerset paper,

The prints are available from  Four Square Fine Arts  at £250 each.

 

A new adventure-Limited edition prints

Funny how doors open into new ventures.Over the last ten years whenever it's been suggested that I might consider doing prints of my paintings, I have deferred on the basis that the examples I have seen are in the main flat and lifeless, with colour reproduction that was generally pretty hit and miss.

And then over the summer a conversation with Rohini, a design journalist and interior stylist http://rohiniwahi.com/wp/    who had featured one of my paintings on her blog some years ago, convinced me to dip my in the water and explore doing a one off print for her.

The results has been a complete revelation to me. I've been working with the fine art printers Harwood King who have been really impressive at each stage of the process, not only getting this first print done, but in advising on the set of prints I have now gone on to do - images of which I've added below.

So here I am, now doing prints, which I really never thought I would, and enjoying it!

Morning Mist

Atmosphere: Atlantic Light

Glitter & Glower

Each print is a signed limited edition of 50, giclee and silkscreen on 330grms Somerset paper,

The prints are available from  Four Square Fine Arts  at £250 each.

 

A River Runs Through It

End of the studio cycle

Natural History VI the upper horizontal piece,at the AAF London last week. It featured in the previous post  being worked on at an early stage. So, now bought by a nice couple from Hackney, it goes its own way and closes a cycle. I'm sure had it remained in the studio, one day I would have seen new possibilities or directions and begun working back into it again,and perhaps in that way we are always painting the same painting. I like the quote by Arshile Gorky,

"I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while"  

Below a couple more images from the stand of  Four Square Fine Arts

 

End of the studio cycle

Natural History VI the upper horizontal piece,at the AAF London last week. It featured in the previous post  being worked on at an early stage. So, now bought by a nice couple from Hackney, it goes its own way and closes a cycle. I'm sure had it remained in the studio, one day I would have seen in it some new possibilities or directions and begun to work back into it again,and in that way perhaps we are always painting the same painting. I like the quote by Arshile Gorky,

"I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while"  

Below a couple more images from the stand of  Four Square Fine Arts

Everything Flows- but at some point there's an exhibition

In a previous post Everything Flows I put in an image of a student in the studio on work experience, mixing up the predictability in my own work, by having him pour the paint. Here just after pouring the paint, he's deciding how it should move around the surface.

And below the painting ten months later, when the flowing stops, ready for the AAF in London on Wednesday.( Though the second Law of thermodynamics, as I found out in the fascinating new series "The Wonders of the Universe",  dictates that the painting will continue to flow, imperceptibly but relentlessly, back to disorder!)

 

Natural History - a painting's geology

Below are three stages of a painting that was worked on over the course of a year. Often, I couldn't see where to go with it, I would put paint on the rub it off, sometimes nothing would happen would on it for a week, except just looking and looking to see if I could find a clue or way in, which reminds me of a great quote by Matisse;

"The next time I return to the work, if I discover a weakness in the unity, I find my way back by means of the weakness - I return through the breach- and I conceive the whole afresh.Thus the whole thing comes alive again."

In the end it became my favourite painting from the recent series and is like all favourites a talisman of possibilities.