Robert is a Luton-based artist/printmaker working mainly with lino
cut techniques. The subjects he has drawn to are abandoned buildings
with a haunting character and architechural stonework.
Robert
studied Foundation at Falmouth College of Arts, and Product Design at
The University of Luton. Robert has since worked in the manufacturing
sector as a CAD draughtsman and sheet metal worker.
Printmaking is
a media that combines industrial principals with image-making and
provides endless opportunities to experiment. Most of my prints are
from carved lino blocks, using a reduction method that allows the
layering of different colours by removing more lino between ink
applications. This technique (sometimes called the 'suicide method')
makes the edition limited to the initial batch as the first layers have
been cut away. All prints are small batch limited edition.
This
year he is using etching techniques when cutting the lino, and have
brought block printing principals to metal plate etching. This quite
unique development he calls 'relief etching'.
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