LAOPOAR - Limited Edition of 3 Artwork

My work is the study of light. I use photography, screen printing, solar plates or oil paints on treated metals. I use natural light as my main exposure source for transparencies and my work makes reference to the origin and technological use of semi-precious metals through history, exploring pop culture, expressionism and our place in the landscape. I love using industrial and randomised techniques but also using traditional methods and materials. This series of prints and paintings are about the materials Calum has used across his working life. When he studied printmaking at Falmouth, he used copper plates to make intaglio prints. The prints focused around the landscape, the coast and the sea. Three themes that continue to influence his artistic career. The compositions in this body of work are inspired by maritime communications. Nautical flags were originally used in ancient military encounters and by 1653 the Royal Navy issued instructions by signalling with flags, modern naval code signalling began with the invention of maritime signal flags in the mid-17th century by the Duke of York. Numerous signal books were published after these systems, culminating in the International Code of Signals, which has gone through a few revisions but still proves useful as most navies still use the ICS flags for representing letters. Each print on copper alloy are ICS flag standard forms but multilayered, like photographic film. Creating compositions from randomised sources like current news headlines, but inspired by design elements and movements of the twentieth century such as Plasticism and Dada, and the Bauhaus school. Influences are Anni Albers, Mondrian, Schwitters and designer Peter Saville. The copper prints are mostly in the standard size of vinyl or disc sleeves and use industrial printing techniques for printingdirect on to copper alloys. Please consider that I live on a remote Scottish island and this affects shipping times.