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Recollections of Barnt Green 1942-1955 |
The Linocuts From the World Trade Center 2002 Somewhere in his diaries, the late theatre critic Kenneth Tynan passes on a comment made to him that “the realisation that what you are doing has huge limitations is in itself intensely liberating”. I find this comment helpful. In these linocuts, I have used one colour (black), two formats (either 20x22cm, or 20x30cm) and mostly just one kind of cutting tool. Within these constraints, I have attempted a variety of image. Linocutting is sometimes seen as a low-tech activity. It is, in fact, one of the most unforgiving and unfudgeable media for image-making (even more so than watercolour). Every step counts, everything finally shows; post-printing modifications are impossible. It is sometimes necessary to repeat a block many times before an image ‘comes out right’ and even then one never knows in advance exactly how it’s going to turn out. These linocuts are obviously studio-based but are derived from
drawings made on-site, outside. I prefer to work in series: Manhattan,
City of London, Deptford Creek, Whitstable Harbour, Around Harlech,
Flight over Clevedon and so on. In this way I can somehow get better
‘dug in’. Cuillin Bantock
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