Martin Truefitt-Baker
Artwork

I started the design work for the new Frosty Full Moon Fox reduction linocut back in November last year. We had been getting a number of 'supermoons'over the past year, although sometimes behind all of the hyperboli, they were a bit underwhelming. The one full moon I remember around this time had an orange glow around it, I think it was called a Wolf Moon. I'd also been doing some early morning walks up on the mountainside, where I sometimes see the big dog fox, so things sta

Some beautiful views and video of Crickhowell bridge (over the River Usk) in the misty morning sunshine.

Christmas animation

I think that finding the right combinations of cutting tools for a relief printer is one of the hardest choices to make.

It's been a busy year! There have been some successes. I've managed to make 5 new reduction linocut prints but I've finished fewer...

Properly cleaned and cared for rollers should last a long time. I've developed this small group of rollers over several years, to end up wit

Summer has been a bit of a washout, so I was feeling a need to make a happy, warm positive print. The idea was pretty simple. My studio...

One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl and Four for a boy Five for silver Six for gold  Seven for a secret never told  Eight's a...

There have been no shortage of cold, stormy and rainy days this year, so I spent some time up on the mountainside where I had originally see

I ended up fascinated by the poetic idea of an otter swimming in the reflected stars and Milky Way of the night sky.

High up on the hillside behind my cottage there is a badger set. It's near to a small group of very old beech trees that stand very tall...

Fox bluebells spring linocut print purple blue green bracken wildlife vulpes stitchwort bees forest

I've been sorting through some photos looking for a background to possibly use in my next print. I ended up 'wasting' a couple of hours...

I've been lucky to have work in three exhibitions starting in January. I managed to get up to Conwy for the opening of the Royal Cambrian...

Well it's been another arty, exciting and busy year, with all of the usual highs and lows of life. I've made a fair amount of art, never...

This is my second attempt at making a career out of my own art and things have been going fairly well so far. For anyone who doesn't know...

A couple of months ago I was invited to take part in a pop up exhibition by Carl Bevan, a Cardiff artist whose work I admire. By some...

This reduction linocut was inspired by a trip out in July this year while I was walking through some fields where the meadow cranesbill...

I've been working on this print alongside the 'The Bluebell Cuckoo' (see my last entry). I've not documented it very much, I've been very...

Last spring, late April, I had one of those magic walks that stay in your mind. I was up in the valley under Craig y Cilau. Along the...