This image is just but one of the many majestic spots scattered along the Flaggy Creek in the Glenrock Conservation Area, in Newcastle NSW. Very close to where I live, this is my go-to for solace and escape. Returning then to my darkroom I then create a unique image utilising age old traditional techniques to capture its innate beauty and explicit detail. An analogue print that captures light and shadow unlike anything you would get from a digital print.
Ready to hang with D Rings and Wire
Professionally framed with Non Reflective Glass, Peterboro Olive VW2037 matte board and a Natural Timber Frame, this artwork is colour suited for a variety of wall surfaces and areas.
What is a Lith Print
Not to be mistaken for lithographic prints, Lith printing employs traditional and historical darkroom techniques but with its own distinct technique of overexposing a black and white negative onto a suitable silver gelatin paper and then only partially developing it in a specialised chemical formula of diluted Lith Developer. This can produce prints with special properties and characteristics in terms of tonal distribution. Lith prints may display delicate, soft and warm toned highlights and mid tones and cool, gritty and harsh shadows. Prints can also be enhanced further by toning using an array of formulas and methods. Lith prints have their own intrinsic beauty and properties and the choice of papers, developers, chemistry, temperature and the artists mood can all produce surprisingly varying and individual results.
In my purpose-built darkroom, my prints are developed from my 35mm camera onto black and white film. These prints are all then created in a one-off dynamic process with too many variables to permit an exact reproduction, therefore resulting in an infinitely individual unique work. I am deeply passionate of my work and the tactile process involved, which is why these traditionally developed prints are a one off original and will not be digitalised for further distribution.