Lindy furby Midlothian, United Kingdom
I am a printmaker based in Edinburgh Scotland. I travel around the country in my campervan painting plein aire watercolour sketches of the landscape. Back in Edinburgh I convert these sketches into collagraphs and print them either at Edinburgh Printmakers or at home. I am trying to cover the whole of Scotland. I also engage in protest art around refugee, BAME issues and others.
My collagraphs are formed on a mountboard matrix. I attach a variety of materials to this matrix - tiling cement - which can be sculpted to produce all sorts of marks - perfect for mountains, pva - which wipes clean - perfect for clouds and sea foam, moss (trees and bushes) , string, , textured papers etc. etc., - all these provide a varied textural background to hold the ink. I then ink up the plate a la poupee with all the different colours where I need them. I wipe the plate - I might rollover the plate with an ink laden brayer - then I place damp paper on it and put it through an etching press. The press pushes the damp paper into all the little crevices and picks up the ink. I then repeat the inking for the next print. I make small varied editions - usually 10 each one unique because of my inking method. I also make drypoints and monoprints and combinations of media. I have recently been experimenting with the laser cutter at EP. Collagraphs are a very economical means of printing. My matrix is mountboard - left over from the centres of mounts. The materials I affix to the board are not expensive - timing cement , pva, string, moss etc. I make small bleed prints usually on Hahnemuhle paper. All in all it means I can sell my work at an accessible price - which is important to me. I am happiest selling my work in pop up galleries where I can interact with the buyers swopping memories of the places I portray.
Artwork
Catterline, Collagraphic print, 2022, £50
Cormorants, Collagraphic print, 2018
Ness lighthouse, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Across Rannoch Moor again, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Chasing Waves, Collagraphic print, 2019, £50
Fidra: Dusk, Collagraphic print, 2022, £50
Iona, Collagraphic print, 2019, £50
Fields of Moray, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
Laxford cutting, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
Pennan, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Sandwood Bay, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Loch Carron: Cuillin view, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Through the skerries Eigg and Rum, Collagraphic print, 2019, £50
Swooping around the rocks, Collagraph/drypoint, 2019, £50
Up the ridge, Collagraphic print, 2019, £50
Glen Banchor, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
St Abbs, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Duncansby Stacks, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Black House Gearrannan, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
Braidburn, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Ben Alligan, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Birch Knot, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
Anstruther, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Fractured ice : Loch Morlich, Collagraphic print, 2018, £90
Black Rock cottage, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
Harbour: St Monans, Collagraphic print, 2020
Swooping terns Cellardyke, Collagraph/drypoint, 2020, £50
Up the Old Glen Road, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Gannets: Bass Rock, Collagraph/drypoint, 2021, £50
Luskentyre, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Looking south to the Summer Isles, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Looking south from Handa island, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Bass Rock Gannets, Collagraph/drypoint, 2019, £90
Puffin Stack, Collagraph/drypoint, 2017, £90
Cairngorm knot, Collagraphic print, 2018, £90
Caledonian pines: sunset, Lasercut monoprint, 2019, £90
Oystercatchers, Collagraph/drypoint, 2019, £90
Crail harbour, Collagraphic print, 2018, £90
Lochnagar, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Edinburgh from the Botanics, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Dunnotar castle, 2019, £50
Bosta, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Across Lauderdale, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Suilven, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Squall over Harris, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
River Dee reflections, Collagraphic print, 2021
Pittenweem harbour, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Loch Insch sunset, Drypoint/monoprint, 2020
Buchaille Etive Mhor, Collagraphic print, 2019, £50
Loch Lomond, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
Loch Assynt, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Bowfiddle rock Portknockie, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Birchwood, Collagraphic print, 2020, £50
Fingall's cave, Collagraphic print, 2018, £50
Tweed valley, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
The Eildon Hills, Collagraphic print, 2021, £50
Projects and exhibitions
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Just the clothes on their backs: bear witness as part of an exhibition by 4 artists" The Mouth of the Shark"08/07/2021 — 31/01/2021 Mouth of a Shark was an exhibition by Cork Printmakers and Edinburgh Printmakers artists responding to the words of the British Somali poet Warsan Shire: No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. In 2019 artists from Edinburgh Printmakers and Cork Printmakers came together to share reflections and responses to Shire’s rallying... [Read more] |
Lord Mayor's Pavilion Cork Ireland, Cork Ireland | Details |
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Discarded01/06/2020 — 30/06/2020 Discarded people:- Nurses, doctors, carers, drivers, shop workers, ambulance drivers …….essential workers. Discarded; dead as the result of lack of PPE, lack of care. A disproportionality of immigrants, blacks, Asians, …….. discarded. This installation consists of 64 discarded facemasks on the ground. 50 printed with a drypoint image... [Read more] |
St John's Church Waterloo London part of Waterloo Arts Festival, London UK | Details |