The exhibition work for Close to Home, is all sitting ready on my studio bench. Fifteen pieces are mounted and the rest, on paper, will be attached to the walls with magnets, making hanging much simpler.
The mounted works are on painted board and to protect them I spray them over and over again with a matt spray, then leave them out to dry, a slow and tedious task. This time I took some photos while the work was drying in the studio. The small ones are monotypes (image painted onto a board and then printed once) and the larger ones collagraphs (plate made of cardboard with shellac coating on which the image is made and which can then then be printed multiple times) or linocuts. Since I prefer variety to a lot of identical prints, I use different colours and then work on the print with pencil and watercolour later as well.
