Artwork description:

A Moment of Bliss owes it's inspiration to wild swimming. I think it is in the evening with the sun dipping, that way the sun has been on the water all day and has retained the warmth, with the colours of the sky reflecting in the water, which must be a pure moment of bliss.

Reduction prints are made using one block of Lino to print all the colours. The image I want to create is drawn onto the Lino, if it has writing or a "right way round" then I have to make sure what I put on the Lino is a mirror image of what I want the print to end up like.

I then start by carving away the parts of the Lino that I want to remain the colour of the paper (for me this is normally white) out of the Lino block. Once this is complete I ink the block and print it. This process is repeated until all the colours have been printed.

As each print is hand made there are slight variations between each print making them unique.

Bluebell Woods is 30 cm wide and 20 cm high and is printed on a slightly larger piece of paper using Schmincke water based ink on Somerset Satin 300GSM paper.

The print is numbered, titled and signed on the front. It is sold unmounted and unframed.

The image will be sent securely packaged by Royal Mail.

Materials used:

Caligo Safewash Ink, Somerset Satin paper

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