I have kept some old rose prunings from a previous home because I was drawn to their shapes and their prickly, truncated nature. They have an expressive and emotive quality which reminds me of the human figure. Over the years I have made successive observational drawings of them, some of which have found their way into my prints.

The prints ‘Musings on Rose Prunings I,II & III’ explore a dialogue which is all about movement and stillness, substance and void, object and shadow, through the use of two contrasting techniques within the genre of linocut; controlled graphic cuts and painterly caustic etching.

Method: Linocut & Caustic Etch. Size: w 63 x h 45 cms. Edition size: 25.

Method: Linocut & Caustic Etch. Size: w 61 x h 57 cms. Edition size: 25.

Method: Linocut & Caustic Etch. Size: w 49 x h 44 cms. Edition size: 25.

Method: Reduction Linocut & Caustic Etch. Size: w 43 x h 30.5 cms. Edition size: 21.

Method: Reduction Linocut with Caustic Etch. Size: w 43 x h 30.5 Edition size: 8.

Method: Reduction Linocut with Caustic Etch. Size: w 34 x h 24 cms Edition size: 25.

Method: Linocut with Caustic Etch & Chine Colle. Size: w 36 x h 32. Edition size 10.