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| Wood engraving: a
print produced from a block of hard end-grain wood, onto the surface of
which the artist engraves a design using fine, steel, cutting tools.
When the cutting is complete, she applies a thin layer of printing ink.
She then carefully places a sheet of smooth paper, face down, onto the
inked block, and takes a printed impression either by hand-rubbing the
back of the paper with a spoon, or by using a press. The artist uses a
cast-iron Albion printing press dating from 1859. She prints a limited
edition of between 20 and 75 impressions from each block. |
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| Monotype: a
one-off print - a unique impression printed off glass, perspex, metal
or any other smooth flat surface. Typically, the artist makes a drawing
in printing ink onto a smooth slab of perspex. When the drawing is
complete and before the ink has time to dry, she lays a sheet of paper
on top of the wet ink and transfers the image from perspex to paper by
carefully rubbing the back of the paper with a spoon. |
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| Poolside Reflection
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| Collage: a work of
art involving the glueing of diverse materials (often paper) to a
backing support. The artist's collages are usually made from selected
details cut from sample printings of her wood engraving and lino
blocks; she also often incorporates other materials such as pen and
pencil drawings, gold leaf, street-map fragments, redundant banknotes
and marbled papers. These are glued onto various surfaces including
archival card, painted wood, seashells and roofing slate to create
unique, individual artworks of great diversity and complexity. |
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| Linocut: a print
produced from a linoleum block, onto the surface of which the artist
draws then cuts an image using fine steel gouges. When the cutting is
complete, the block is inked and printed as for a wood engraving (see
above). She prints a limited edition of between 12 and 40 impressions
from each lino block. |
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| Limited edition: a
finite number of identical prints, each of which is numbered as part of
the total. A print numbered 6/40, for example, denotes that this is the
sixth print in an edition of forty identical impressions. The artist
designs, cuts and prints all her own blocks by hand and produces a
signed limited edition from each block. |
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