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Impetuous Young Printmaker Wonders Where to Go with Paris?

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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?


Written by Mike Booth

August 4, 2009 at 8:04 am

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