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Jeff
Clarke R.E.
(Born
Brighton 1935)
Night Reflections
Night Reflections
360 x 499 mm
Aquatint, with scraping, stop-out and drilled holes, 1976.
A unique impression.
Signed in pencil and dated.
On wove, a little cockled within the plate but only noticeable verso.
£400
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Additional
Information about the Print
One of five extant ‘subjects’ made when Jeff briefly ventured into abstraction, under the influence of his association with Terry Frost at Reading University in the mid 1970’s.
The
zinc plate was first etched with a grid all over,
still just visible. It was then scraped in places
with power tools. Collage stop-outs were applied
to the plate and a resin aquatint ground added
before rebiting in the acid bath. The collaged
shapes prevented biting beneath them, so that
after wiping the inked-up plate for printing,
the ink could not reach where the plate had been
protected, and the shapes ‘printed’ as ‘white’.
The
white spots were created by drilling holes (which
could not therefore receive ink at all) right
through the plate, so that the natural ‘white’ of the paper shows in a variety of ‘blind’ printing.
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