Linotaku Prawn

Linotaku PrawnThis striking print by Jane Evans, an Anglesey based artist working from her garden studio overlooking the Menai Strait, reimagines the traditional Gyotaku method using a carefully carved lino cut in place of a real prawn. Printed onto delicate Chinese paper with high quality acrylic inks, the piece faithfully honours the spirit of Gyotaku the ancient Japanese art of nature printing. Just as a real fish would be inked and pressed to paper, Jane uses

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the paper is then mounted using the traditional wet mounting technique of uruachi

Traditionally used to record the details of marine life

They retract much faster and also smudge when printing

this is a Japanese stamp of my name

The choice of subject matter retains the Gyotaku tradition’s close relationship with the natural world while extending its scope beyond marine life

The next stage is to varnish the print to the board

It will be sent unmounted and unframed

sadly they don't pick up when you try and print the fish so you have two options

it needs to be made flat

just a couple of miles from my studio

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