Figures from the deep

These two prints are made using a commonly seen etching technique employed to create tone called aquatint. I paint acid directly onto an aquatint prepared plate to build a dark deep image and then add structure with linear work aswell as gradually revealing form out of the black tone by scraping and burnishing away the etched surface. The resulting image is rather like to more involved mezzotint process but far easier to acheive.

Death and Transformation

Here are three relatively recent prints all dealing with bodily states. The moth is newly born as a changed being but in a state where its still unfurling wings are not capable of flight. Don Quixote is in a state of mummification and in the third image, the bee-keepers' situation is unclear, perhaps in a dreamworldsomewhere between the two.