Friday 23 November 2012

Fish on Friday


A bit of a hybrid: the head from an experimental Gyotaku print made with a bream, collaged on a wooden letterpress print body. This print is currently on show at The Old Passage Inn in Arlingham, Gloucestershire, in a fish-themed exhibition.
Gyotaku is a Japanese print method. Fishermen painted their catch with non-toxic paint and then covered the fish with shoji paper and rubbed gently to transfer an image to the paper. The fishermen then had proof of the size of their fish.
Gyo = fish, Taku = rubbing or print.

Monday 5 November 2012

Let's start at the very beginning

 

I couldn't decide where to start with my new blog, then realised it had to be this: a drawing of me drawing on January 19th 1962, 3 weeks before my 3rd birthday. It comes from a sheet of drawings made by my father (Kenneth Oliver) at our house in Prestbury. Good to be still drawing 50 years later!