I canoed out into a foggy waterway some years ago and have made a couple of attempts at making a print of the experience. The best I seem to do is to show one frame of what should be a movie. It looks foggy but nothing is emerging out of, nor disappearing into, the mist.
After a couple days of warm Spring weather it is snowing again. I posted this as a reminder that warm weather is on its way.
From inside this heavily shaded woods the sunlight pouring through the trees seemed absolutely brilliant. And warm:-)
The ‘black’ is actually violet but looks more naturally black than black ink did; a trick I borrowed from oil painters.
‘The Walls we build’ was an observation; it seemed so clear when I saw it in someone else. After it was all done I started to realize that that my walls were just as high but, apparently, harder to see from this side.
Just when I thought I was safely out of the woods, another landscape. This was from a sketch I did last summer in the 30,000 Islands, an archipelago in northeast Georgian Bay. It shows one ten thousandth of the islands.
The latest, a 4 colour, 15×21 engraving that had been floating around in my head and doodled on unguarded bits of paper for a long while. It reminded me of a landscape. Sid, a printer friend, was kind enough to give me some cans of ink when he closed shop. Hence ‘Sidscape.’
It’s now hanging…or hovering… at The Whitestone Gallery in Guelph.
This seems to mean many different things to different folks and that’s a good thing because that title sure doesn’t tell you much.
3 colour, 7×9 engraving
Seems that a lot of people have experienced this; it was one of the most commented on prints in the exhibit. The comments, and the tone they were made in reflected some of the feelings expressed in the Wall Street protests.
3 colour engraving, 7×9
Time is running out!!!
BEYOND LANDSCAPE
Recent Engravings by yours truly, a colourful, thought provoking departure from my usual barns and trees and barns and trees and barns…
These are much more abstract, more ‘graphic’, more insightful than most of my work over the past couple of decades.
OPENING NIGHT PARTY: November 5th
You are welcome to attend. In fact, I’d be quite happy to see you there!!!!
The Show runs from October 29 thru November 26th
The Whitestone Gallery, 80 Norfolk Street, Guelph ON
The print in the background of my Show poster. This one was meant to show the frustration of reaching an impasse, of not being able to move forward or backward or sideways. Been there, felt that. It was also the beginning of utilizing the press’s ability to lay down large solid layers of colour, something that has always impressed me about this type of printing.
A ‘transition’ piece that used landscape to illustrate an engraving I created with survivors of all types in mind. I wanted to present the bleakness of their recent past coupled with the potential that the future held, but held without any guarantees.
2 colour, 5.5×7 engraving on Stonehenge paper
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year or so ago I did a series of six multi-coloured pieces completely different to the landscapes I’d been doing for a couple decades.Eventually I burned all but one block and one print but that particular print was the beginning of the more abstract work that makes up much of what I now create. I find it exciting.
This November’s show will be the first showing for many of the pieces.
clive lewis, printmaker 
