Stuart, Betty and me!

Lino print time . . . really don't know what I'm doing but it's really good fun . . . .playing with papers, printing techniques, different linos, and looking forward to getting my hands on some good tools.

This (below) is the reason why I'm playing with lino printing . . . a bit of a project with a friend and colleague (and expert lino artist and printer!).  The project's to do with a local statue of John Douall Stuart and it's 'audiencing'.  So we've been printing and inviting artists to re-interpret the prints in terms of their response to the statue, the politics, the history, the . . . .

 So here's the beginnings of my response to the statue, the man, the history:  provisionally titled, I wonder, Mr Stuart . . . but quite likely to change, especially when I start putting the pencilled text in and then maybe, if it still feels right, the green acrylic lebeck tree foliage . . . .