Martin Truefitt-Baker
Artwork

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...

After missing for two years due to the pandemic, Crickhowell Open Studios returned this year. It took place over the long Jubilee bank...

I've seen kingfishers on the river Usk (south Wales). Sometimes even by the Crickhowell bridge but not that often. My experience of the...

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...