Chatham Spin II

The linoleum blocks for the prints in the Chatham Spin portfolio were created with my collaborative partner, Rhonda Neufeld at a residency at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, On. As we walked together carrying the blocks and drawing on them, we rotated them ninety degrees about every ten minutes. There is no top or bottom as they were drawn with all four edges of the block in a top orientation before we had finished. We cut the blocks later at my studio in Vancouver and printed them at Rhonda’s studio in Armstrong, BC. For printing, in a similar manner to how they had been drawn, every time we changed the colour on the block, we rotated the black block ninety degrees in orientation.

The Chatham Spin linocuts are printed on buff coloured Arches Cover, image size: 12 X 12 inches, paper size: 19 x 19 inches. There are eight prints in the portfolio and they are identified verso as a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. The edition size is seven. Complete sets are available in a clamshell box with silkscreened title, information and colophon pages. Chatham Spin II was completed in 2013.