Nina and I set up our exhibition 'Molotovs to Modernism' at the LCB depot documenting the first 6 months of our Fellowship. Its a lovely light space and just the right size for two!
Here are some snaps of the work in situ
The gallery from the outside
My work including a couple of paintings which relate to the lithographs I have been working on
Nina's lively lithographs
The exhibition runs until 23/12/15
11/11/15
First day printing in our fabulous new premises at LPW!
Loads of light and space.
Printed 8 of the Park Hill large stone on Fabriano white and 2 on Japanese paper.
Heres our new litho press kindly donated by a lovely lady from Wirksworth.
And heres out trusty old litho press brought from St Stephens road.
The newly acquired press isnt up and running yet so I printed on our old one. 8 prints of the Park Hill large stone taken on Fabriano white and 2 on Japanese paper.
18/11/15
Using the old press - printed an edition of 6 of the small Park Hill stone on Fabriano Rosepina Cream and a further 6 on white using crayon black and NAM inks. The stone was darkening up a bit so I treated it with a solution of Atzol at the end.
Worked a little on new small stone (Park Hill 3) -Used masking tapes, NAM dissolved in turps to get the intense blacks, rubbing blocks and a tusche dissolved in water.
In the evening we had an excellent Workers Unite session. A social event (not a trades union meeting which was what I originally presumed!) whereby members of LPW get together with plenty of wine and crisps to discuss their arts practice and what they have been up to. We also had a visit from Ruth Sumner, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at DMU who kindly gave us a one to one crit of our work which I found particlarly useful.
