Starting a few months ago with my print ‘Waves’ I have been attempting to get a little more spontaneity in my work. My print of ‘The Dunnock’ used a combination of fine line detail for the bird with a much more experimental approach to its setting.
In ‘View from the Road to Paradise Farm’, a ten stage reduction print, I have attempted to employ a similarly experimental methodology - allowing the print stages themselves to determine the appropriate next step in order to better capture the spirit of the location’s topography and atmosphere.
Based on the view to the east from the road that runs north along the western ridge of the North Yorkshire Moors, this is a magical landscape of towering scale.
As I’ve discovered with the last two prints, spontaneity and experimentation can prove to be expensive in both time and materials. At each reduction stage the ink block needs extra consideration in cutting and appropriate inking and, with my clumsy nature, irrevocably mistakes occur, of an original edition of ten, five remain of what has to be called a variable edition! The print and its details can be found in the Yorkshire Dales sub folder of ‘PLACES’
