A review of 2022 - a year in print
by John Bloor
February 21, 2023
I started the year with my first four Take Flight prints. The idea was to show birds flying (for the most part) in their environment. So a crow among rooftops, a magpie between fences, a cuckoo in oak trees and a blue tit amongst tree blossoms. Also I intended to screen print the colours and lino print the detail in black. These prints would feature abstract shapes behind the detail and colour fills behind the birds.
Free resource - printmaker texture image pack
by John Bloor
November 18, 2021
You may know I am a keen screenprinter and also a keen photographer. I like to use textures in my screenprints, either from monoprinting ink or fro...
New Print "Between Tides"
by John Bloor
October 1, 2021
Boats have featured in quite a few of my prints, like Seaside Garden and Rock Stack. Still, they have never been the main feature, so when my dad s...
New print "Along the Coastal Path"
by John Bloor
September 13, 2021
After printing my series of three coastal path prints in 2020, I felt I had more I wanted to express in a print. Using a path as the focal point, I...
New print "Harbour Lane"
by John Bloor
July 2, 2021
Following the series of coastal paths prints, I wanted to follow the theme but use it differently.
From the things I print and talk about, you can ...
6 prints I love for your living room
by John Bloor
March 11, 2021
Following my post from quite a while ago about print for the hallway and stairs, I wanted to look at what you can do in your living room.
New print series "Coastal Paths"
by John Bloor
March 2, 2021
Over the past few years, I've been playing with ideas for coastal prints. Initially, I started by making assemblages of seaside flotsam, like bits ...
Quotation prints
by John Bloor
May 24, 2020
My quotation prints continue to develop, and with my latest going on sale earlier this year, I wanted to look at back at the current four and look...
New print “Beach Findings”
by John Bloor
May 24, 2020
While on holiday in St. Davids last year, I created a flurry of sketches to be used as new print ideas, including one called “Beach Findings”.
Th...
New animal prints for Spring 2020
by John Bloor
May 23, 2020
At the start of the year, I wanted to create prints that would potentially be formed of one colour only.
Having created single colour screen print...
New print series “Majestic Animals”
by John Bloor
March 31, 2020
When I decided to do another series of animal prints, I came up with the idea of making them look like travel posters for animals, showing them...
New prints “Running Hare” and “Crow Flight”
by John Bloor
March 30, 2020
I have long admired printmakers who use all available space in the print, but make it seem natural. I decided to make a couple of mono linocuts in...
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