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.

Dry-Point Prints: Collections

THE FORD BRIDGE

Picturesque snow scene of a footbridge arching over a shallow ford, blanketed in fresh white powder with serene winter stilln

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

Black and white print framing cinema icons through blocked exit doors of a former theater, now a carpet warehouse

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.

Dry-Point Prints: Projects

SHOTTON COLLIERY

Black and white dry-point print of Pitt Yard's pithead winding gear and buildings behind an untidy wall, with blue sky accent

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

Dry-point print of a deteriorating seafront building revitalised in recent years, framed by faded shimmering foil discs

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

Contrasting white and black birds perched in a broken window of a decaying Portuguese house, inhabiting its balcony

One white bird, the other black sit in a broken window where they inhabit the balcony area of a decaying Portuguese house.

Dry-Point Prints: Projects

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

Dry-point print of weathered rails and yellowing lawn outlines from a dismantled old fence, creatively arranged

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

Whimsical dry-point print of nine palm trees rising above a grid of boards in a hotel quadrangle, reimagined

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.

Dry-Point Prints: Projects

ANOTHER JETTY PICTURE

Vibrant dry-point print of a sun setting over an old disused pier, with accents of pink, purple, and blue

The sun sets on an old disused pier.

BRIDGE BARNARD CASTLE

Black and white dry-point print of the popular view of Barnard Castle ruins and bridge in County Durham

A popular view of the bridge and ruined castle at Barnard Castle, County Durham

FENCE REVERSE

Dry-point print of slap-dash fence construction intertwined with wild foliage, rendered in intricate etched lines

Dry point depicting slap-dash fence construction and foliage.

Dry-Point Prints: Projects

THE LONELY FAN

Black and white dry point of a solitary football fan seated in an expansive empty stadium, evoking quiet anticipation

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

Dry-point print of two workmen chatting on a bus, rendered in stark black tones with striking red accents highlighting detail

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.

Dry-Point Prints: Projects