Linocut calendar

My calendar is finally finished! It's now available in my shop here

The brightly saturated colors of this August calendar page seem like a perfect salute to summer. To create the designs for this 1969 calendar, Takeshi Nishijima applied a paper-dyeing technique based on the traditional resist-dyeing process of katazome. Katazome relies on the use of katagami (stencils) to create hand-patterned textiles, most of which were used

Linocut is tricky and messy (at least in my case:), so designing a callendar in this technique went through several stages. At first, I though I would print all 12 pages and then have them scanned and multiplied. Naturally, there were mistakes (the writing backwards part gets me every time). They might have been photoshoped, as I was happy with some of the monotipy effects. Still, the question of funding remained unresolved.... Then, I tried to have a one-sheet calendar, with all 12 pages on…

Limited edition linocut calendar with women eyes in masterpieces

Here an image of my new hand-printed calendar for 2013. It is a three colour screen-print and can be purchased from the Red Door Gallery, Curiouser and Curiouser, Marchmont Gallery, from the Edinburgh Printmakers gallery-shop and from the wonderful cafe-gallery Bon Papillon in Edinburgh. Although personally I cant quite believe 2012 is almost over, I hope this calendar gives some positive thoughts for the fast approaching new year. If you have the chance to drop by Bon Papillon before…

There may be six months left of 2012, but I just added the new 2013 Letterpress calendar to the shop ! It was a big seller at the Statio...

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I don’t have a calendar at home. The reason for that is…everytime I want to buy one, I can only find really ugly calendars in the stores…(Am I the only one?) But because I’…