Etchings in series, suites and sets
"Poems Betons"
"Poems Betons" is a series of 5, multi- plate, black and white etchings.
The images are a portrait of life around my studio on St Lawrence , Montreal -The Main, ave du Parc, and Rachel.
Multiple images are printed together, shaped on the page like the words and phrases in concrete poem.
This title is a play on words- a literal translation.
Paper is 11" x 15" on Arches in an edition of 30
"La Vie Intérieur "- Verte & Rose
Set of 2 aquatint etchings with rainbow roller
on Rives BFK Image 5 x 7” Edition of 30 $225
on Rives BFK Image 5 x 7” Edition of 30 $225
"Demarche"
suite of 3 etchings on "The Family program"
intaglio etchings with viscosity relief
image 11 x 9" on Rives BFK
edition of
suite of 3 etchings on "The Family program"
intaglio etchings with viscosity relief
image 11 x 9" on Rives BFK
edition of
"Local Habitation"
Suite of 3 chine collé aquatint & spit-bite etchings
20 x 26" on Rives BFK edition of 10, 2013
“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, . . .
the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
from A Midsummer's Night Dream
Shakespeare
Local Habitation is a suite of three etchings -reflections on creative manifestation.
The three pictures are drawn with aquatint in a photographic style.
The plates are etched with nitric acid that works by dissolving unprotected plate into vapor.
For the clouds I used a rarely chosen opaque white ink coloured with the plate’s own oxide.
Spit bite is carried on water so I used that to carry the aquatint to etch the traffic flow and the cloud-like imagery.
The coalescing of water into cloud into shape,
meets the photograph
- a visual imprint of light.
Thus the images are created at the crossroads,
the X Y axis of two abstractions,
two airy nothings.
The forms of things unknown, . . .
the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
from A Midsummer's Night Dream
Shakespeare
Local Habitation is a suite of three etchings -reflections on creative manifestation.
The three pictures are drawn with aquatint in a photographic style.
- Of the the east side of Boulevard St Laurent, at Rachel in Montreal. My studio's about half-way down the street.
- Of the Inside of my next studio, near St Joseph, the figure I call The flyer dangles in front of my shelves.
- Of the wall in that studio, drawings of two 3-d portraits, myself- the flame-head clay figure- images reflecting Grunewald, Blake, and the puppets of Rilke.
The plates are etched with nitric acid that works by dissolving unprotected plate into vapor.
For the clouds I used a rarely chosen opaque white ink coloured with the plate’s own oxide.
Spit bite is carried on water so I used that to carry the aquatint to etch the traffic flow and the cloud-like imagery.
The coalescing of water into cloud into shape,
meets the photograph
- a visual imprint of light.
Thus the images are created at the crossroads,
the X Y axis of two abstractions,
two airy nothings.