Landscape I was part of a limited series of imagined topographical features inspired by my residency at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA in 2019. The long, thin plates were made on Birch plywood bases, onto which various acrylic gels had been applied. I then made various marks in the surfaces using plastic and metal tools. Some of the outcomes included anomalies or ‘happy accidents’ – such as the lighter areas you can see in the print which were the result of the paper sticking to the plate and peeling away some of the soft cotton surface of the paper.
