David Lynch’s factory photographs

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“I don’t like colour. The real factories that I love, they’re black-and-white experiences. Colour putrefies them… I really love the oil-impregnated earth, you know, where the earth is gleaming with black oil and there is steel and brick and glass and these machines, and smokestacks and the smoke and the fire. It’s an amazing, phenomenal thing.”

David Lynch

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Dan Mumford – Radiant Dusk screenprint

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‘Radiant Dusk’ by Dan Mumford

Following on from last year’s Radiant Dawn print, I’ve just received this lush new Dan Mumford print from the same series (although my backlog of pictures to frame isn’t getting any smaller). Stunning colour palette and tight composition.


Kim Høltermand’s serene structures

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The Trees

Not sure where to start with Kim Høltermand’s incredibly serene landscape and architectural photography because there’s so much of it and it’s consistently impressive, although some of the series could have been edited down a bit. (more…)


Etching course

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First version

I recently did another 3 day etching course. It was great to be back amongst the inks and smells of the etching studio at Camberwell College of Arts, but 3 days is hardly enough time to get your juices flowing with a process as slow and methodical as etching. (more…)