COLLAGRAPH GALLERY

Stock held at:-

First View Gallery- National Trust's Stourhead Estate - www.first-view.co.uk

Twenty Twenty Gallery- www.twenty-twenty.co.uk

Moss Prints - www.mo22gallery.co.uk

 Rostra Gallery, Bath www.rostragallery.co.uk

Lion Gallery, Leominster - www.liongallery.com

Sky Blue Framing, Bristol - www.skybluegallery.co.uk


Flock together
25cm x 30cm

Birds of a feather
25cm x 30cm

Red Thread
48cm x 53cm

Four for a Boy
68cm x 32cm

Three for a Girl.
32 x 68cm

The Gangs all here.
40 x 80cm

Black bird
40 x 80cm

Outside. 56 x 44cm

Chicken I. 14cm x 20cm

Cockeral. 14cm x 20cm

Cockeral II. 14cm x 20cm

Light Sussex. 14cm x 20cm

An ostentation. 40 x 65cm

Escape. 65 x 80cm

Joey made tea. 22 x 30cm

Dropped a stitch. 46 x 92cm

Magpie with Longhorn Beetle 30 x 40cm

Rook with Moth 40 x 30cm

Crow with Stag Beetle 30 x 40cm

Tea Party 30 x 40cm

Wren, 30 x 43cm

Sewing bird, 30 x 43cm

Sewing Goldfinch, 30 x 43cm

Sewing Jenny, 30 x 43cm

Uncle there's a bird. 30 x 43cm

Got it pegged!
74 x 92cm

Dirty Laundry 

74 x 92cm

Hello

42 x 60cm

Balancing Act

42 x 60cm

Light Sussex

60 x 42cm

The Bargain

65 x 80cm

Cage

65 x 80cm

Key

56 x 44cm

Label

56 x 44cm

Marley 

80 x 50cm

Blue Tit

56 x 44cm

Gold Finches

56 x 44cm

Look Left, Look Right.

80 x 65cm

Singing the Blues I

43 x 30cm

Singing the Blues II

                                   43 x 30cm                                  

King of the Birds

80 x 65cm

                                                                 Another Maran
                                                                         80 x 65cm

Dunstable Swan

74 x 92cm

Thus Spoke the Raven 

80 x 65cm

Bird House

56 x 44cm

Great Tit

56 x 44cm

All these images are made using an intaglio printmaking technique called collagraph. Derived from the word ‘to glue’, collagraph at its very basic level is about inking up a collage as an intaglio and relief plate and printing it with an etching press.

 There are many ways to make this printing matrix, from sticking and layering different textured papers to a base plate made of mount board using fabrics and acrylic mediums to create different ink holding surfaces. Once the plate is made the surface needs to be sealed with shellac or varnish.

Once created the plate is then inked like an etching by pushing ink into all the textures and polishing the ink off white and light areas. Using damp etching paper the plate is passed through an etching press to pull a print.

There are as many ways to ink a plate as there are to make one.  From straight forward intaglio inking to, blended rubs, viscosity inking, coloured rolls and multi plate colour separation.