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 19
- 3 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 17
- 4 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
- Apr 10, 2023
- 5 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 23, 2023
- 2 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
- Oct 1, 2022
- 3 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
- May 12, 2022
- 4 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 13, 2022
- 3 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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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Nov 28, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Aug 15, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Jun 1, 2021
- 2 min
'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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Mar 6, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Winter Fox
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Dec 5, 2020
- 2 min
Designing for reduction linocuts.
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Nov 27, 2020
- 2 min
Left to right! 'Well hello Mr. Fox, what a nice surprise to see you!'
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,...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
Vulpecula
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...
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Martin Truefitt-Baker, Art
- Dec 11, 2019
- 1 min
Autumn Bracken Badgers
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...
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