‘Old Hands’ – A new series of photogravure prints
The series is made to reflect the experience of observing one’s ageing hands.
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#1 Half Empty? Half Full?
June 2023. 20x20cm
Polymer plate inked on the press bed awaiting the damp paper to be lain over it, ready to be wound through and transfer the ink to paper.
click for roaming close up
#2 Always at hand
January 2024. 20x20cm
Finished print with velvet black ink on Hanhmueller paper.
A slideshow of the analogue making process
A slideshow of the Testing process using water and sunshine to develop and harden the polymer on the plate in preparation for inking up and winding through on the pressure press to print out on paper.
The following pages document prints #3 – #6 and the direct to plate digital techniques and considerations made.
