At work on Homage to Edith Downing. Edith Downing (1857-1931) was a sculptor and a suffragette. She is represented in the National Museum of Wales by the life-size figure of Avarice. My print celebrates the life of this neglected Welsh sculptor of the Edwardian era, who was imprisoned and force-fed for protesting against unjust voting laws by breaking the windows of an Art Gallery in Regent Street. In the exhibition, I show the process of developing this print from initial sketches, photographs and other archive material.
In the photograph, I am lifting a fresh print taken from the 'key block' (placed in the foreground), whose design has now been transferred ('off-set' printed) onto an uncut block of lino to be cut for printing one of three new colours to be added to the black of the key block. The off-set was made by running this freshly printed sheet of paper (with 'wet' ink!) through the press again, carefully placed 'face down' on to a new block of lino, thus transferring the design which can be seen on the new block as light gray. When this ink is dry, the design for a new colour can be cut to fit into the design of the black key block.
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