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Artwork description:
The way Scots writer Hugh MacDiarmid (1892—1978) did his hair made his head look as if it were on fire, which in a sense it was. His daughter-in-law Deirdrie Grieve commented, “I think he entertained almost every ideal it was possible to entertain at one point or another.” His most famous work is “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” first published in 1926. It comprises a series of meandering poems written in his own variant of Scots. I took the title for this print from the same book:
“Or am I juist a figure in a scene
O' Scottish Life A.D. One-nine-two-five?”
This print is pulled from engraved rubber, my own variation of relief printing.
Materials used:
oil based ink, JPP dull white inlay paper
Tags:
#hugh macdiarmid #scotland #original print #letterpress printfigure in a scene (2019) Print
by Peter Long
37 Artist Reviews
£50
- Print on Paper
- From a limited edition of 6
- Size: 27.94 x 33.02cm (unframed) / 13.97 x 16.51cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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Artwork description
The way Scots writer Hugh MacDiarmid (1892—1978) did his hair made his head look as if it were on fire, which in a sense it was. His daughter-in-law Deirdrie Grieve commented, “I think he entertained almost every ideal it was possible to entertain at one point or another.” His most famous work is “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” first published in 1926. It comprises a series of meandering poems written in his own variant of Scots. I took the title for this print from the same book:
“Or am I juist a figure in a scene
O' Scottish Life A.D. One-nine-two-five?”
This print is pulled from engraved rubber, my own variation of relief printing.
Materials used:
oil based ink, JPP dull white inlay paper
Tags:
#hugh macdiarmid #scotland #original print #letterpress print
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Artist Reviews (37)
Peter Long
United Kingdom
About
I keep a sketchbook in my pocket and draw what I come across. Sometimes I turn the drawing into a print in deep colours. I developed a technique
that gives good... Read more