PRINTS
All are handprinted from Peter Grant's original Linocuts using Caligo Inks.
(Peter is a member of the British Printing Society and one of the Printmakers of Scotland.)
"The prints are made in my printroom in a cottage in the South of Scotland.
As I work I can look to the hills in the East over my very unkempt garden
- which I try to keep as a haven for wild life.
About twenty species of birds come to visit my feeder, or appear in the sky around - including a Red Kite.
In the garden itself is a stoat, a weasel - and just occasionally - a vixen!
Under the Beech trees behind the cottage are dozens of species of mosses and fungi, and sometimes I am lucky to see a pair of squirrels."
LINOCUT TO LINOPRINT
The drawing or sketch is transferred to the Lino using good old fashioned Carbon Paper – remembering to reverse the image left to right, otherwise any lettering would be back to front, or the tram driver would be sitting on the wrong side!
Art Lino is Grey and is soft and easy to cut.
The details of the picture are carved out using specialist cutters and gouges.
This can take days to do, and a different “block” is needed for each colour.
When cutting is finished the block is very carefully inked making sure that every part which is to print has an even film of ink – a job which takes practise – and a large waste paper bin!
Enormous pressure is required to transfer the ink to the printing paper, but there is nothing more rewarding than to peel back the paper to reveal the picture (more or less) as you imagined it.
ALL PRICES INCLUDE CARRIAGE AND PACKING IN THE UK.
PLEASE NOTE - THESE ARE ORIGINAL PRINTS NOT DIGITAL REPRODUCTIONS!
Click on the picture for more details of the print.
