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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...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 25, 20221 min read
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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...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 13, 20223 min read
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Spring Exhibition at Ironbridge Fine Arts
I've recently bought a Gunning etching/multi print press from Ironbridge Fine Arts and they have very kindly invited me to exhibit in...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 3, 20221 min read
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Up Early
Up and out early. Taking some photos/researching some ideas for the background of a couple of new prints. A crisp morning. The peril from...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jan 12, 20221 min read
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Happy New Year!
When I design a linocut I often take the elements of the design, cut them up and rearrange them till I'm happy. It's only another step to...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jan 1, 20221 min read
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An online article about my work
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...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Nov 28, 20216 min read
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Rocking Frosty Hare Card
I finished the Frosty Hare linocut print in the summer. Too late for any commercial publisher who might be interested to use the image as...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Nov 4, 20211 min read
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Early Autumn Colour
A few photographs from the garden on a glorious bright October day.

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Oct 10, 20211 min read
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Between Snow Showers is used as a Christmas card by the RHS!
https://shop.rhs.org.uk/.../rhs-christmas-cards-owl-snow... Wooohooosie! It looks like the pack of 10 cards (5 of each) for the RHS -...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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Winter Fox greetings card is published
The samples of the newly published greetings card from 'Winter Fox' arrived yesterday. I'm really chuffed with them. The printing is...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Sep 21, 20211 min read
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Art In Penallt 2021!
Yes! Art in Penallt has returned at last. I was very pleased to be asked to exhibit again. Once again it has been held at 'Humble by...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Aug 31, 20211 min read
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Oh Myfanwy!
Introducing Myfanwy! My new Gunning no.3 press, with a specially made large top roller, from Ironbridge Fine Arts. I've been struggling...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Aug 21, 20211 min read
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Frosty Hare
A slightly varied edition. They are all the same tonal range. I think the image processing has made some lighter. The field where the...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Aug 15, 20212 min read
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July in the garden
Mokka supervising an early morning bit of linocutting outside. It's too warm to work inside! Messing around with a bit of timelapse to...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jul 21, 20211 min read
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'Golden Morning Hares'
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...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jun 1, 20212 min read
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Winter Pinecone...another varied edition.
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...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 12, 20212 min read
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Spring Swallows
This is one of two recent prints I’ve been working on over the past month or so. Hopefully the other one of a pinecone will be finished...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Images of four of my prints are now available as cards published by Art Angels.
The Badger linocut print has recently been published by Art Angels as a part of their 'printmakers' range. That means there are now four...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Feb 10, 20211 min read
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Snowy morning in the Beacons
This morning. Not as much snow as hoped but enough to make you look at the landscape in a different way. Got lost looking for a new path...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jan 24, 20211 min read
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Art inspires Art
a trickster's tale this wintertide fox prowls unflurried in snow's drifts nose to the scent trails scaped against the land cast in silent...

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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