Lockdown offered an ideal opportunity to revisit a technique that I have used at infrequent intervals through my career as a painter, though I did not envisage that this lino-printing project would occupy me for so many months.
These are all unique prints rather than editions, with the compositions arrived at by stamping individual blocks in improvised configurations, so that themes have emerged which I think of as pictorial inscriptions.
Much of my work draws inspiration from regular periods of time spent working in Cyprus over the past forty years, often at Cyprus College of Art in Paphos, where I teach on Erasmus-funded Fine Art courses. Influence comes from an eclectic range of sources, however, and photography has become an increasingly important means of note-taking, and particularly during times of restricted travel, I have found myself making more reference than usual to my archive of images, some of which are included here.
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