Linocut Print on paper

Signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.

This is a limited edition original Linocut in an edition of 50. The pictured image is framed and the edition number will be subsequent to 1/50.

This is one of 50 limited-edition Zebra Linocut Prints.

There are currently 49 available via Bluethumb and 1 via the Old Schoolhouse Gallery in Cleveland Queensland.

This image was created from a photograph which I took in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in Zululand, Kwa-Zulu Natal - South Africa. It was then hand drawn onto the block and carefully cut to the image you see.

Each image has been hand inked and printed - thus every image in the series is truly unique.

There is a timelapse video of the process available via the following link, and via my Instagram / Facebook account @spotticlogg (please follow ;) )

https://youtu.be/KxUlFKNIsvM

Lino Cut - hand signed and numbered

Paper: Traditional Japanese KOZO paper

Sakura Oil based ink.

Print size approx 295x210mm
Paper size approx 320x485mm

Limited edition of 50 hand signed prints

Unframed Lino cut print

Fits into an Ikea Virserum 30x40cm frame

Suitable for landscape framing.

Origins of Linocut
Although linoleum is a floor covering that dates to the 1860s, the linocut printing technique was used first by the artists of Die Brücke in Germany between 1905 and 1913, where it had been similarly used for wallpaper printing.

A Linocut is a relief print (like a woodcut), the image is carved from a block of Linoleum. Areas are carved or cut away from the block, what remains will print when the inked roller is passed over the top of the block and paper is laid on the block to take an impression by hand or through a press.
All my Linocuts are hand printed on handmade Japanese Washi / Kozo paper which for centuries has been used for block printmaking. It is thin enough for hand printing yet surprisingly strong and quite beautiful, also acid free and archival.
The majority of my Linocuts are custom coloured, I mix my own ink colours. I use Sakura Ink and have an artist’s proof print as my guide for the colours and tones that I will apply to a print in the same edition, there may be slight variations as my colour mixing is ‘painterly’ therefore each print in an edition is an individual.