Behold @ieuanedwards.bsky.social! Magnificent 🦀

Glasgow chums, my plans to get to The Barras on Thursday to see The Beta Band have been scuppered so I’ve got two tickets at face value if anybody can use them. I’ll see the lads in London next week so all is not lost!

Really pleased with this ammonite, printed with Prussian Blue ink on near black paper.

Mairi knows

Very happy to announce the launch of a series of immersive two-day linocut print workshops for beginners, in conjunction with some great heritage settings. Kicking off at the ace Kent Mining Museum in November and January. Details via my Linktree or by DM

Very happy to announce the launch of a series of immersive two-day linocut print workshops for beginners, in conjunction with some great heritage settings. Kicking off at the ace Kent Mining Museum in November and January. Details via my Linktree or by DM #linocut

Workshop announcement incoming…

I sacrificed one of my Mountain Shelter prints to the wind gods yesterday at the summit of Ben Nevis where I made the original sketches and took reference shots a few years ago (on a far less windy day). Kind of a low rent KLF moment. There’ll be a short video on the way soon.

Mono monoliths from the last few days

Super stoked that this double portrait has made it through to the Ironbridge Fine Arts printmaking competition and exhibition

My lino crab children are already scuttling off to Scotland and Mexico, happy trails kids! A few still available.

Heading up Ben Nevis in a week or so. Thinking about taking one of these up to photograph it in situ. Would that be bonkers?

These are ready and waiting to scuttle off to their forever rock pools.

Seven colour linocut crab finished after a final push. An edition of just 25, print size 26 x 40cm, I’ll be listing a few at mid-day tomorrow

Four colours down, two to go.

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

Three colours down on a new crab linocut print. Three, maybe four, to go.

Can’t wait for this one! Kudos to Tina for bringing it together.

One layer to go. I’ve printed ten on off-white paper and ten on black. I’ll post the end product in a few days and then it’s back to something with pincers #linocut

Found some green ink. Two colours down on a little botanical study #linocut

What, this old thing?

New extended workspace in Margate. Let me know if you’d like to visit

New A4 edition in Prussian Blue

I’ve carved and printed a new A4 edition of My Underwater Love, pictured here alongside the much bigger version. Bit of a challenge to pack the detail in!

Two appearances at the Landmark Centre in Teddington coming up #linocut #printmaking

Friday shop plug, for all your high quality niche print requirements blackgoldpress.bigcartel.com

Date for the diary - the first Paper Ink Print in 2023 was ace, high hopes for the sequel.

Norwaying. Normal service will resume after Easter.

A few of these now available and starting to be claimed (thanks folks). They’ll ship out after Easter once they’re good and dry. Link in my bio.

All done. Seven layers, an edition of 18 prints. Very happy indeed.

Last carve on this reduction print

A quick peek at the penultimate layer. Almost there…

Always a nice surprise when one of the later stages of a reduction piece makes for a decent print in its own right. I’ll print a small run of these #linocut #octopus

Carve update

That’ll do for tonight. Hopefully printing this layer in a couple of days, then just one (maybe two) more.

This is where the fun really starts…

Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? Printing a bunch of these while I wait for my octopus to dry. Hatching plans for the next in this series of grotesques… #linocut #sputnik #saturnfive #printmaking #art #sciart

Half way on this whopper of a cephalopod. My dreams are currently quite tentacle heavy.

The linocut artwork I created for the new album by folk rock band Green Diesel. Have a listen. greendiesel.bandcamp.com/album/onward...

Popped over Le Manche to Rouen to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor last week because.

Having lots of fun with this block. There’ll be a few variations of the final print

This week’s very much early stage “in progress” for #printpromptmonday - long way to go but I promise you it’ll come together….

Fox, four colour linocut print #foxofthday

Bit of crepuscular cephalopod studio action

Going in on this beast today. Sharpie and rocket fuel for scale. I’ll be throwing all the colours at this one

A one-off My Underwater Love linocut print in metallic copper ink, numbered 1/1, up for grabs in tomorrow night’s art auction for Palm Bay school in Margate.

La Pasionaria on the Clyde Waterfront in Glasgow. Featuring a statue of Dolores Ibarruri, it's a memorial to the volunteers of the Internarional Brigade who fought and died in the fight against the forces of fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. #glasgow #statue #warmemorial #lapasionaria

Peel and reveal of my fox linocut print #foxoftheday

My completed foxy four layer reduction linocut print #foxoftheday

Three colours down on this little chap, one to go.