Martin Truefitt-Baker
Artwork

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

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

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

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

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...

A nice online article has been published about my work and how I make it. It is in the blog section of the Handprinted website. link...

A slightly varied edition. They are all the same tonal range. I think the image processing has made some lighter. The field where the...

It has taken a long time to finish this print for one reason or another. From the first ideas and sketches it has been nearly three...

The process of reduction linocut printing is very unforgiving. Once a slither of lino is cut it is almost impossible to put it back. The...

The Badger linocut print has recently been published by Art Angels as a part of their 'printmakers' range. That means there are now four...

This design is the same size as my last fox print and is also set amongst the trees and bracken on Mynydd Llangatwg. The printing has...

Why do I design my linocuts in blue? The main reason is, I just find it works for me! I'm sure others may have their own preferences. It...

I’ve put together a few sentences about how we read a painting or drawing from left to right. As a left-handed (keggy wifter) printmaker,...

I've been working on and off on this linocut design for over two months. There is a patch of mountainside behind where I live that is...

The garden could really do with at least one resident hedgehog. It would certainly not go hungry. The slugs and snails thrive and shelter...

Whahooosie! Finished at last. Several lessons learned, I had to 'patch a part of the last layer because I was rushing and cut away too...

I have been really honoured this year to be asked to be part of Art in Penallt. It used to be in a small chapel building in Penallt but...