230514_A Print

This is one in a series of Digitally Remastered Drawing prints that are drawn from around the area where I live. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty where the Thames has cut through the Chilterns creating a rolling chalk landscape before the river hits the clay basin on which London sits and finally the sea. This is an ongoing project with currently forty-six finished artworks in the series and there will be many more, but I have selected the best eighteen for display, reaching back to the autumn of 2022, but as the year progresses and I draw more I will replace the older ones or ones that I feel have been superseded with new ones on an ad hoc basis. The idea is to create a collection of landscapes that rolls and evolves with the seasons. My method of working is to create two drawings ‘en plein air’ the first is a black and white drawing and the other is in colour. Back in the studio I use the black and white drawing to create a depth map in a computer graphics programme and then use the colour version to paint the depth map with colour. This provides a layer of miss-registration and additional texture to the drawing. The final version is rendered in a virtual glass cube and the resulting print is digitally printed on artist quality paper at around 31.23 centimetres square (the same size as a vinyl LP cover). The original artworks are not for sale, but they are available as unlimited edition prints at various sizes from this website.