Helen Boden

Joined Artfinder: April 2013

Artworks for sale: 117

(15)

United Kingdom

Updates from Helen Boden's studio

  • Rolling the ink

    Rolling the ink

    After making a linocut by cutting away the white areas of the plate with U and V shaped cutters. The normal process of inking the plate is to roll over the surface. Here I am inking up the roller by passing it over the surface of rolled ink.

    04 November 2024
    screenprinting

    screenprinting

    In my studio I am working on the process of screen-printing 'A step forward' which has many transparent colour layers.

    31 October 2023
    new year new work

    new year new work

    I am making some large mono-prints with relief shapes for my new project on Laurie Lee novels. They inspire lots of vivid landscape type shapes and Spanish colours

    08 January 2023
    By the press

    By the press

    After the print has been taken from the press it is worth looking carefully in good light to check whether any improvements can be made

    12 July 2022
    In my new studio

    In my new studio

    This year I moved to a new studio and have set up in a log cabin transformed into a printmaking workspace. All the equipment fits well and I have space for 2 presses, a UV exposure unit and many worktops

    03 May 2022
    looking for texture

    looking for texture

    The sun shines into my studio and enhances the textures on my etching plate.

    08 October 2020
    in the studio

    in the studio

    This is a recent photo of me with some of my work framed ready for 'The Poetics of print exhibition'. This exhibition shows a diverse range of traditional printmaking techniques by Bodenpress artists with their own style and interpretation of Metroland and other selected poems by John Betjeman.

    11 March 2020
    Revealing the print

    Revealing the print

    The best feeling is pulling back a print for the first time or even at any time as there is usually a surprise. Have you wiped enough away? Will the colour be right?

    30 August 2018
    hanging up my Linocuts to dry

    hanging up my Linocuts to dry

    It is very satisfying to see your work hanging in a row. LInocuts usually air dry but some prints have to dry under boards with blotting paper as the paper is damp when it is printed.

    30 March 2017
    A suprise everytime

    A suprise everytime

    I love pulling a print from the Etching press as it is gives you a thrill of seeing your inked up plate printed onto the surface of the paper and of course it will be the mirror image of how the plate looked.

    01 November 2016

    Inking and printing Heals Helix Linocut

    The plate is rolled with oil based printmaking ink and run through an etching press onto Somerset paper.

    07 July 2016

    cutting the lino for Heals Helix

    After taking a trial proof, I continue cutting the Japanese vinyl to finish the plate. Think mirror image.

    07 July 2016