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Jeff
Clarke R.E.
(Born
Brighton 1935)
Burslem (seen
through wire netting)
Burslem (seen through wire netting)
495 x 616 mm
Sugar lift etching, 1970.
Signed in pencil, dated and titled. On wove.
Five proofs were printed in 1970, of which two sold immediately.
Two are currently available.
The plate did not survive.
£400
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Additional
Information about the Print
Etched while Jeff was a visiting tutor at the Burslem School of Art.
Sugar-lift
allows spontaneity of drawing on the plate.
The
design is painted onto a zinc plate in a mixture
of sugar and black gouache. It is left to harden
before the plate is covered all over with a bitumen
ground. After the ground has set, the plate is
put in water, which dissolves the sugar and lifts
the ground where the drawing is. The plate is
then deeply etched, giving, when printed, a thick
aquatint-like line.
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