Artwork description:

Waterfall is a hand printed reduction Lino print. It is one of an edition of 9 prints.

In 2019 we visited Betws-y-Coed and completed the waterfall walk which was truly beautiful. When I reviewed all the photos though, all the waterfalls were quite big and weren't really captured well enough in my photos to translate into a Lino print. This was a little waterfall at the side of the road, the foaming water was splashing down the dark slate, and was perfect to make a Lino print.

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.

Waterfall is 15 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:

Schmincke Ink, Somerset Satin paper

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