This is just the beginning. The linocut itself is the matrix. I have left uncut what I don't want. From here I make proofs, make changes to the matrix according to what I learn from the proofing process. When an edition is made, or a series is completed, the matrix is cancelled, or, some artists do frame the matrix if they like the look of it, or to show it for informatative purposes.
All works on this website and shared with other sites are coyrighted to Margaret Gosden. For permission to reproduce any artwork and/or content, please contact the artist.
PAPER PLEASURES, by Faith Shannon Grove Weidenfeld, NY. (and London) 1987 A good starter book for handmade paper making
PRINTMAKING IN THE SUN, about making prints using the Solarplate Method, by Dan Welden and Pauline Muir Watson-Guptill Publications, NY, 2001 (See BORDER PATROL)
THE COMPLETE PRINTMAKER (Revised and expanded) by Ross/Romano/Ross Roundtable Press (a division of Macmillan, Inc. Free Press) 1990
JANUS - looking backwards and forwards is a Janus trait - for me a way to record the "in between thought", whether in retrospect, or as a notion for the future.
I make original prints, currently etchings. I sometimes write and take photographs. I am inspired by what I see and read.
Although postings are chronologically recorded by date and time in this protocol, the images exhibited, often seen in different stages of production, are from another time. So, with each new posting, earlier postings can undergo revision or amplification as will be noted, or requested.
The addition of a SNAPSHOTS Blog and a VIRGINIA WOOLF Blog are included because my different interests tend to influence what I do as an artist. There will be a Family Blog, too, for the same reason.
I think there's something appealing about this 'unfinished; work. Do you ever leave things unfinished?
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