Martin Truefitt-Baker
Artwork

I always enjoy the challenge of making reduction linocuts of the birds that live around my studio in the Usk valley. The rendering of feathers, especially with markings rather than fur, can be tricky. How much do you simplify or stylize the textures and patterns? Added to that, I often try make my designs from a viewpoint close to the animal, as if you are there with it. So this red kite design was conceived to give the feeling as if you were flying over the bridge yourself,

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