Martin Truefitt-Baker
Artwork

I didn't want to start with a tight drawing this time. Sometimes trying to be so safe can squeeze a bit of the 'poetry' out of the process. Instead I made a few quick expressive watercolour, ink and pencil sketches of the birds. Developing the interaction between the two birds.

I started the design work for the new Frosty Full Moon Fox reduction linocut back in November last year. We had been getting a number of 'supermoons'over the past year, although sometimes behind all of the hyperboli, they were a bit underwhelming. The one full moon I remember around this time had an orange glow around it, I think it was called a Wolf Moon. I'd also been doing some early morning walks up on the mountainside, where I sometimes see the big dog fox, so things sta

I think that finding the right combinations of cutting tools for a relief printer is one of the hardest choices to make.

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

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 wish and Nine a kiss, Ten is a bird, You must not miss. There are many versions of this very old rhyme but I've never come across a version that varies much before eight. Some have up to 20 birds... I think they are getting a bit carried away (a whole Hitchcock film's worth!) Back in 2017 I hadn't been painting and printing for myself again fo

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.

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...

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 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...

I've recently bought a Gunning etching/multi print press from Ironbridge Fine Arts and they have very kindly invited me to exhibit in...

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...

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...