We’ve just been in Mawgan Porth for a few days – in Cornwall, between Newquay and Padstow. We’d been down there a year or so ago and both made a series of drawings of the beautiful bay and, further along the coast, the great rock pillars of Bedruthan Steps. That last time had been in November and freezing cold, so we were hoping for clear skies and warmth this time and were lucky! We made lots more drawings and colour studies and
I’ve made two monoprints since we’ve been back. They both have an image from a woodcut made from a drawing of a tidepool in Mawgan Porth bay. The first also incorporates a small drypoint print of the sand and sea and the second includes an etching of a similar image, both built into the print using a chine colle method.
I like making monoprints because the immediacy enables an idea to be developed very fast. I particularly like to be able to include other elements of my ‘visual language’ to link ideas. These prints were both made using Akua Intaglio on Arches 88 paper.
