This is print from the short edition of the proof that I posted last week. I was tempted to add a third colour to the warm black and purple of the heather but resisted and adopted the simple austere approach. The original sketch was drawn in the early eighties so it’s yet another revisit to an old subject, a terrace of workers cottages with just a little ad libbing for good measure. Well my memory isn’t what it used to be and that’s my excuse, to call the ad libs improvements is stretching it a bit though! This block was too big for my Albion press so it was a case of hand printing on my desk-top by way of an experiment in alternative printing methods and now the success of the method has opened up new possibilities for the ongoing work on the Fenland landscape here in West Norfolk. A new project is slowly hatching.
John Richardson Lino Prints 
I’m loving the contrast between the purple and the black – it really makes the colour pop.
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Thanks Martin, glad you like it. As an experiment it worked out really well, now I’m talking to my paper supplier about Japanese papers. He’s sending me some samples and costs, the cheaper sheets not those costing thousands for fifty sheets!! UTB, John
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Hi John,
I’ve just realised exactly where these cottages are (still are, I think) – near the railway line at Kildale, on the road to Commondale. My great grandfather was a station master at Danby, a few stops down the line –
Jon
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Jon, I remember roughly where they are but they are the ones! I remeber the railway, battersby junction, Kildale, Commondale, Castleton, Danby, Lealholm. Good Lord, I’m in ‘pullovers for goalposts’ nostalgia land here. I do reemember those stations being like gardens in the summer too. John
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