Week Ten - Making a Series

We have the Cass Christmas Cracker exhibition shortly and my aim is to make a series of at least six images to exhibit. By producing a series, or suite, I am hoping to explore and develop a language and understand where to go next, more than if I produce one offs, (hence the reason I set aside the photocopy transfers for the time being).

I've been looking at John Hoyland's series of etchings and the impact that each print has on each other, when viewed as a series. There is a tremendous depth of colour due to the aquatint and carborundum. Each image size is about 700x550mm (the paper size obviously even bigger).  We were lucky enough to view some of these at Nigel Oxleys studio in Bexhill:

Splay 1979

Anking 1979

Memphis 1980

Rankin 1979

Dido 1979

I mentioned before the Howard Hogkin prints I saw at Alan Cristea - again a series with repetition of the same etching in different colours. Each print becomes a memory of its predecessor in the suite. I've also been looking at John Cage with his series of prints inspired by the Ryoanji Garden in Kyoto where he drew around 15 stones whose positions on the plate or paper were determined by chance. 

River Rocks and Smoke: 
4-11-90 #1, 1990

So I am revisiting my prints with etching and lino combined, to include my "Bathroom Crack" images and make a series. I have taken two plate etchings and added the lino "stamp" which had informed the etching and had been the offset onto to the etching. These continue the theme I was working on previously:

2 plate bathroom crack with lino stamp

2 plate bathroom crack, kitchen floor with lino stamp