1. LINES AND shapes
Brushstrokes directly record the speed and rhythm of the painter’s gestures, preserving stillness or dynamism in the dried layer of a single artefact – a painting. Printmakers, by contrast, create artwork that is intended for reproduction and must imbed energy into the image itself. Stillness is implicit in the methodical, subtractive process of relief printing so dynamism must be injected into the print through its composition, through the design of interacting shapes on the picture plane.
Never has the potential for movement in printmaking been so clearly exemplified than in
