An artistic interlude

A week of etching at the Royal Drawing School

In the spirit of self care, upon leaving my last job I treated myself to the Royal Drawing School’s Etching Week.

For this post, I will avoid verbosity (difficult) and instead show you what I made.

The original Long drawing I defaced in order to measure up my plate.

Etching drypoint onto hard ground on zinc (maybe that means something to some of you).

The etched plate once it's been through the zinc bath. This one I minorly fucked from not account for the acid neutralising over the course of a day.

The resulting print (long dog!!!)

The studio. The press looks Victorian but I was assured it's only 60 y/o. The original family still come to service it!

I studied Computer Arts at university- so being back in a ‘real’ creative studio with inks, presses and etching tools (plus no idea of how to use any of it) was invigorating. A crash course in beginner’s mind.

I also had the pleasure of working alongside amazing, inspiring artists like Angus Munro Morton and Emily Ponsonby

Printing from tetrapack (my first ever print!)

Print based on a comic I did in 2020.

Artist for sale

I may look at selling on some of these very limited run prints in the coming months. If you’re interested- drop me a line!

“Strawberries” VE 4/4

Texture and colour from chine collé technique is unmatched.

“Long” Edition of 5

“Endless” Edition of 2

Based on an ink painting I made in the last few months of my dad’s life.

A single edition made for our home. Don’t they look like they’re in conversation?

To create for creativity’s sake is human. I hope you too can find your chance 💖

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Back to normal programming next week- probably talking about visualisation! See you there!