Lake (Pack of 3) - Christmas Card

Luke is an artist and printmaker who creates art prints, illustrations, note cards and limited edition original prints exploring relationships to nature, memory and time. Working across a range of printmaking techniques to capture unseen forces, suspended moments, hidden connections and wonder. Living and working in Bath, UK.
 
With a background as an architect he was drawn to the technical challenge of the printmaking process and the possibilities to make a unique set of marks like no other medium. Working with relief and intaglio printmaking, Luke makes incisions and indentations in the surface of the printing plate. A thin layer of ink is carefully worked into these grooves and printed using an etching press where dampened paper is forced into these grooves, lifting the wet ink to transfer an impression of the plate onto the paper to form the image.
 
There are endless possibilities for mark-making using different combinations of techniques including engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, mezzotint and collagraph to name a few, used on their own or in combination. The process and techniques chosen determine the depth and distribution of the ink which produces areas of tone or line work to form the image.