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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Early Autumn Colour
A few photographs from the garden on a glorious bright October day.

Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
Oct 10, 20211 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


'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


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


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


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


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


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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