Since 2017, I have made a number of fine art digital prints, and so I thought I would provide further information about this strand of my work.
I made my first fine art prints more than forty years ago when I attended Camberwell Art School — these were lithographs.
Later, as my painting changed from figuration to painterly abstraction, I began making screen-prints. At the time, the intensity of the colours and the mark-making seemed to lend themselves more readily to the kind of art I was hoping to make.
When I left Camberwell I concentrated my efforts on painting and drawing as well as making collages. However I often incorporated printing techniques into my work. This usually took the form of mono-printing, but I also experimented with transfer prints as I tried to introduce newspaper photos and typography into a painted image. Yet I was unable to successfully master this technique and it was not until many years later that I finally made progress. That was in 2013, when the nature of my work changed again, this time returning to figuration.
I began by making digital images, manipulating my own photographs with Photoshop and then transfer-printing these onto primed MDF (Medium Density Fibreboard), as well as paper, before applying paint. A good example of this can be found here. I should add that during the process of painting I always take photos of the work, and I often use these photos to develop more digital images.
Ultimately the process comes down to painting pixels, often working at a magnification that allows editing at an individual pixel level. Prints will be proofed and then re-edited.
I produce one final print with no editions. Even at art school I disliked making editions, finding it tiresome and eager to work on something new. Recently I have taken to produce more than one print. But having set aside one, I paint on the others.
My prints are either produced as Giclée or C-Type photographic, and you can see a selection here.