Page 68 - Studio International - December 1967

Bound into each

copy of this issue - -
of Studio
International is a •
print, specially

commissioned by
London Graphic
Arts, by one or
other of the artists

whose work is
described in this
page. All six are Bartolomeu dos Santos 1s mainly a Brian Elliott's interest 1n print-making Derrick Greaves· interest in
print-maker, and confines himself
i II ustrated here in almost entirely to etchmg. He works derives from his interest in print-making derives from his need to
transformation. He works manually on
clarify his thinking about his painting.
monochrome. straight on to the copper plate a silk screen, the technique he uses The 1 hought-processes involved in
without preliminary studies. He
painltng are complex, and progress is
for nearly all his prints. Then, by
describes his way of working as printing on lo paper, he transforms the not governed by physical factors.
organic. The print grows as he works image from something on the sc,een, Print-making, by contrast. must move
on ii, constantly changing and which he cannot really see, to from process to process. It is
developing, so that it frequently ends something on paper, which he can. necessary to finish one process before
up quite diflerent from the original Although he has been working with moving on to the next, and very
intention. He has a good visual screens for over ten years, he always positive and sharp decisions must be
memory, and the elements of his works. blind, not sure how the result made as to intention before each
compositions come to mind as he will look. Since he works blind, lh<> process can be completed. He finds
needs them. His native Portugal is an results are not wholly consciously that screen-printing best achieves this
important source of visual material. controlled. His conscious concern 1s aim, although he does etch, and is
with techniques, not image. introducing aquatinl into his work.

Frank Martin is an illustrator by Brian Rice's interest In prints ,s Philip Sutton's prints serve
profession, and until a few years ago three-fold; they arc multiples, they essentially the same purpose as his
made wood-engravings for books for, cost him less physical effort than his paintings: they are records of the
among others, the Folio Society. He paintings, and they are different in visual impact or the sub1ect on the
does not think that illustrators are scale. His prints are screen prints, for artist. Sutton works directly from the
completely artists, they are too which he makes a gouache drawmg, motif, whether model or landscape.
interested in the subiect. He came from which silk screens are cut. They When making a print he draws straight
lo this kind of work comparatively therefore cost him less physical on to a square block of plywood or a
late. Having read history at Oxford he eflort than his paintings, so that he piece of linoleum, in front of the
went lo St Martin's School of Art, feels able to experiment rather more model. He uses an electric saw to
where Ge, t, ude Hermes greatly freely and sometimes to be rather more cul the wood into pieces or cuts the
inf1uenced him. Now he is a full-time frivolous than in his pamlings. He linoleum with a knife, colours each
teacher, and has almost entirely finds, too, that he can work on a print piece separately, and fits them
given up book illustration-partly at the same time as on a painting, together again to make a complete
because publishers' deadlines proved whereas he cannot work on two picture. This is then printed on
irksome. canvases at once. Japanese paper.

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