Character Building Prints 2017 - 2018

Inspired by interest in learning Mandarin, these prints have been composed using a number of cut Japanese vinyl shapes and tusche wash printed from stone. The cut shapes, which are based upon both fictitious and existing 'radicals', graphical components, elements- vertical, horizontal and cursive strokes, are used to construct more complex characters that have ambiguous meaning or no defined meaning in Chinese.

Printed in four - five runs, the prints exist in four distinct 'editions' or formats.

Character Building 1: Edition of 15 printed on Somerset Satin White 280mm x 380mm.

The print was produced for the Print Rebels Portfolio Project curated by the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers in 2017 to accompany the major exhibition Print Rebels: Haden, Palmer, Whistler and the Origins of the RE that will show at the Bankside Gallery in 2018.

Participating artists for this project were required to make a print in response to an artist (or print) from the RE Diploma Collection. For this print I selected the print ‘Basic Vocabulary: Tea Pot’ by David Barker 1994.

‘David Barker opened my eyes to the world of printmaking, taught me how to teach and inspired a lifelong interest in China and Chinese’

Character Building 2: Edition of 8 printed on Somerset Satin White, Rives Grey, Rives Cream and Rives Tan

Paper size: 280mm x 380mm

Character Building 3: Edition of 8 printed on Somerset Satin White, Rives Grey, Rives Cream and Rives Tan

Paper size: 380mm x 380mm

Character Building 4: Series of 4 printed on Somerset Satin White, Rives Grey, Rives Cream and Rives Tan

Paper size: 380mm x 380mm

Character Building 4:  I-IV

Vinyl Cut and Lithography

255mm x 255mm (Paper 380mm x 380mm)

2018

Character Building 3:  I-IV

Vinyl Cut and Lithography

255mm x 255mm (Paper 380mm x 380mm)

2018

Character Building 2:  I-IV

Vinyl Cut and Lithography

255mm x 255mm (Paper 280mm x 380mm)

2018