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Top Ten Tips for Linocutting

Here are my top ten tips for linocutting. Practise first Before you go straight into carving a design make a test print on a small piece of lino. Practise making a range of marks. Don’t worry about making a recognisable image, just play around and make as many different shaped cuts as you can – […]

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New linocut print – Deep Sea Diver

My deep sea diver print is finally finished! It’s the first multi-coloured linocut I’ve made for ages, and the biggest. I’ve made bigger prints, like the T-Rex and Dodo, but used screenprint for the colours on those. This time I had to print and register seven separate lino blocks. Below is a photo showing the […]

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Deep Sea Diver linocut in progress

My linocut of a deep sea diver is coming along. I’m going to try and finish it this week and also to finish the film I have been making of my working process, from carving the block through to printing. I am still trying out colour combinations and deciding whether to add fish to the […]

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Linoleum: The Cutting Edge exhibition of linocuts

The exhibition of linocuts I curated opened last night at HemingwayArt, Oxford. We had a great turnout and there was a huge amount of interest in the work which was very gratifying after all our efforts! Here are a few photos… Left: Victoria Browne. Right: Bill Fick Wine waiting to be guzzled Prints by Peter […]

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Linoleum exhibition at HemingwayArt Oxford

Linoleum: The Cutting Edge, an exhibition of linocut prints, animation and other lino-based art opens tomorrow at HemingwayArt gallery, Oxford. I’ve spent the last three days hanging framed prints, formatting videos and installing Mark Andrew Webber‘s piece which hangs across the ceiling of one of the gallery rooms. Mark Andrew Webber with his installation Other […]

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Linoleum: The Cutting Edge – Bill Fick prints

These stunning linocuts arrived in the post last week from Bill Fick. They are for Linoleum: The Cutting Edge, an exhibition of large-scale linocuts and animations at HemingwayArt next month. The prints are bigger than they look in the photo – that’s an A0 size planchest they’re sitting on! Can’t wait to get them framed […]

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Mark Andrew Webber at the Linocutboy studio

Over the past week my studio in Margate has been blessed with the presence of Mark Andrew Webber and his amazing linocuts. Mark is best known for his large-scale typographic maps of cities but as my printing press is a more modest size he brought along three brand new ‘small’ linocuts to print. I made […]

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An Alphabet of London – linocut book by Christopher Brown

I first encountered the work of linocut artist and illustrator Christopher Brown at a St Judes exhibition where his enchanting little thumbnail images of humorous characters caught my eye. I also heard him talk entertainingly about his mentor, the great Edward Bawden, at St Bride Library in 2010. He had many anecdotes which he told with […]

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Coming soon – bigger and better linocut exhibition!

Things are gearing up nicely for the third installment of the touring linocut exhibition I have put together. Linoleum – The Cutting Edge will be on show at HemingwayArt in Oxfordshire from 14 – 29 April. This is the latest incarnation of BIG ASS Linocuts and Linomations, which showed at Pie Factory in Margate and […]

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Museum of linoleum

I just came across this and had to post a link. Nuff said. Museum of Linoleum

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