Impetuous Young Printmaker Wonders Where to Go with Paris?
This is a Plea for a Press
Mark Andrew Webber is the industrious young British printmaker who recently created a short animated video made up of nearly 300 linocuts. He has also linocut his way through maps of four of his favorite cities. His last one, Paris, is so ambitious (image size: 150×180 cm.) that he can’t find a press big enough to print it on. This note is a plea to the Print Workshop Central experts for information leading to a press large enough to do the job. I’d like to help this young man if we can. He’s creative and hard working enough to deserve it, I think.
You can see more photographs of the almost-finished Paris linocut on this Flickr display: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markandrewwebber/
Or Webber’s interview on World Printmakers: http://www.worldprintmakers.com/english/linomation.htm
Or his own website: http://www.markandrewwebber.com/
Why didn’t Webber think beforehand about the press required to print his giant linocut? Didn’t you ever build a boat too big to get out of the garage?
I think it’s fantastic that he is being so adventurous….isn’t that what being an artist is….taking risks and making the world think and see from different perspectives!! Use a mini steam roller I say and print it using a street in Paris. Good Luck Mark.
Sharon
January 14, 2012 at 11:24 am