Author: stockportinprint

I specialize in printmaking especially etching aquatint and my other passion is painting seascapes and landscapes in acrylics. I am also interested in photography and experimenting with digital art. As a starting point, I use a mixture of sketches and photography to create prints and paintings. The artwork and design featured on this web site originates from my school, college and university days and also more recent work that I have created from regular printmaking workshops and art holidays. I regularly exhibit my art in the annual Stockport Art Guild exhibition of which I am a member.

Air Raid Shelters etching

During a full weekend of printing, I completed a new etching for the project which depicts the Air Raid Shelters in Stockport which apparently during World War II could accommodate up to 3,850 civilians when it was opened in 1939. This was then extended to allow up to 6,500 civilians making them the largest purpose built shelters in the country.

During a guided visit a few years ago, I was able to capture on camera the warren of red sandstone tunnels which extends for up to 1 mile in total.

This time I produced a number of different versions of this print; some in sepia, black ink and I also added colour to some prints using a fine brush to colour in the bunting and the Union Jack flag. I also used an etching crayon and aquatint to depict the sandstone walls.

  

Trip to London

While in the capital earlier this month, I visited the Intaglio Printmakers shop based in a small basement in Southwark, south London.

I had planned to visit this shop for some time and as it’s only a ten minute walk from Tate Modern, I decided I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity. I wasn’t disappointed, it was like a sweet shop for printers, with everything you could imagine a printmaker would need.

I decided I needed some more printing inks and purchased a number of primary colours and shades which I hope to use not just for printing etchings but also lino-cuts. I hope to develop skills in linocut this year and have a list of buildings I want to capture in relief printing.

It been two years since I setup this blog and started what has been a fruitful and interesting project.

Here’s to another productive year.

  

Viaduct and Bus Terminal

Here is one of my cyanotype prints I produced a few years ago at a workshop.

According to Wilkipedia, a Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide.

Viaduct_bus_station

Tea Kitchen Exhibition

Update: I have a mini exhibition of my printmaking on display soon at The Tea Kitchen, The Old Sunday School, Roe Street, Macclesfield from Tuesday 19th January to Monday 14th March 2016. See flyer below for details on this event.
I have a mini exhibition of my printmaking on display at The Tea Kitchen, The Old Sunday School, Roe Street, Macclesfield from Tuesday 19th January to Monday 14th March 2016.
I have a mini exhibition of my printmaking on display at The Tea Kitchen, The Old Sunday School, Roe Street, Macclesfield from Tuesday 19th January to Monday 14th March 2016.

20:20 Print

I have just printed off my remaining 20:20 prints for Hotbed press using my new portable press. I decided to print a drypoint this year. Just need to sign and number the edition of 25 ready for hand in next week.