Artwork description:

Inspired by the variety of textures and delicateness found amongst plants that grow in gaps between pavement and walls and other ‘uncultivated’ areas, my etching ‘Summer Garden 1' is celebrating wild flowers and grasses (see sister etching 'Grasses") that grow wherever they are left alone to do so. We need more wild flower, meadows and gardens for wild flowers to take over!

To capture the plants as they are I used the soft ground technique to create this etching. The plate is inked up anew for every print taken. Some small colour variations occur within this small edition.
Each etching is an original, printed by me on acid free fine art printing paper in my studio in Brighton/ UK. The image size is 35cm x 35cm with a paper margin of 8cm all around.

Materials used:

flowers, grasses, etching grounds, paper, ink, steel plate, printing press

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