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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
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Sep 63 min
Sun Swallows, a reduction jigsaw print
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jul 243 min
Making the Magpie Silver reduction linocut
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jul 193 min
Deluge
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
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 174 min
'Swimming in Stars',a nightime otter print
I ended up fascinated by the poetic idea of an otter swimming in the reflected stars and Milky Way of the night sky.
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Aug 5, 20233 min
Blustery Day Badger
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Apr 10, 20235 min
Bluebell Wood Fox
Fox bluebells spring linocut print purple blue green bracken wildlife vulpes stitchwort bees forest
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jan 26, 20231 min
Panoramas
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jan 23, 20232 min
January Exhibitions
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Dec 31, 20224 min
A quick personal round up of what has happened to my artwork in 2022
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Nov 11, 20222 min
Getting artwork published
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Nov 6, 20221 min
Pontcanna Pop Up!
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Oct 1, 20223 min
Hares and Meadow Cranesbill
This reduction linocut was inspired by a trip out in July this year while I was walking through some fields where the meadow cranesbill...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Aug 12, 20222 min
Tawny Owl Twilight
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Aug 6, 20223 min
The Bluebell Cuckoo
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jun 6, 20222 min
Crickhowell Open Studios 2022 (the return!)
After missing for two years due to the pandemic, Crickhowell Open Studios returned this year. It took place over the long Jubilee bank...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
May 12, 20224 min
Kingfisher, evening rain.
I've seen kingfishers on the river Usk (south Wales). Sometimes even by the Crickhowell bridge but not that often. My experience of the...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 28, 20223 min
Trees 'up the top'
I've been feeling a bit stuck in the studio lately. The winter hasn't been that bad but working on some commissions, a new linocut and...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 25, 20221 min
Coleg Gwent
I had a very pleasant day yesterday working with students from Coleg Gwent, Cross Keys campus, near Newport. A big thank you to both...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 13, 20223 min
Winter Hillside Badgers
My latest reduction linocut is of two badgers up on the hillside in the winter on a crisp chilly day. The hawthorn trees up on the...
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