DRY-POINT PRINTS
A simple process
A process which can lead to the production of fascinating prints. An image scribed onto a rhenalon plate, takes up ink as an etching plate would. With damp watercolour paper laid over it, the plate passes through a press. The ink is transferred to the paper and here is your print, black and white, with colour possibilities too.
THE FORD BRIDGE
A picturesque snow scene from a study made at Barton, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.
BLISS
A longstanding fascination with the British seaside helped to put together this print, featuring a besuited snoozer surrounded by striped deck chairs...bliss.
RIALTO
A nostalgic visit to a cinema of my youth, sadly now a carpet warehouse, led me to use it’s blocked exit doors as picture frames for past icons of the silver screen.
SHOTTON COLLIERY
This print is based on an old sketch made of the pitt yard, it’s buildings and pithead winding gear, behind an untidy wall.
SPANISH CITY - WHITLEY BAY
Revitalised over recent years, this print is based on the then deteriorating building on the seafront, surrounded by faded panels of depleted shimmering foil discs. The discs pick out the building’s silhouette.
TWO BIRDS, ONE WINDOW
One white bird, the other black sit in a broken window where they inhabit the balcony area of a decaying Portuguese house.
FOOTBRIDGE
As you wait for your train, you idly watch blurred, scurrying figures crossing an opaque, perspex lined footbridge. Stands as a good example of the momentary glimpse. A snapshot in time.
GRASSBOARDS
The old fence came down. The rails lay on the lawn long enough to leave yellowing outlines. The print is based on the lawn marks and weathered rails, arranged in an unusual way.
PALM BOXES
In a hotel quadrangle, stand nine palm trees above a grid of boards.This is the focus for an imaginative print where we see the grid has become the surface of a very deep box. Whimsical.
ANOTHER JETTY PICTURE
The sun sets on an old disused pier.
BRIDGE BARNARD CASTLE
A popular view of the bridge and ruined castle at Barnard Castle, County Durham
FENCE REVERSE
Dry point depicting slap-dash fence construction and foliage.
THE LONELY FAN
This print intends to show the despair of the supporter who has sat here, suffering ninety minutes of his team’s inadequate performance. He'll be back next game, of course.
THE 41 BUS
At one time in the distant past, I regularly would find myself near these two cheerful characters, fresh out of the workmen’s club, heading for home on the last bus out of Durham.