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"Swallows"
These three woodcuts form a series of works made at the maximum size that my etching press will take,
printed on Arches paper 700 x 1060mm (27" x 42"), with an image size of 600 x 890 mm (24" x 35"). I made
them with the idea of them being viewed as a triptych; with "Eagle" on the left, "Swallows" in the middle and
"Spaceships" on the left.
These three prints are refinements or variations on works that I have already made, or are ideas
that have been around for a long time. I would like to continue producing more works in this format, I
find that the size looks great in prints.
The eagle of the title is both the bird and the Apollo moon mission craft. The image is changing
into a vulture on the left. I redrew the stilts people and added corn and a circle.
This is the working title for this piece, because the cityscape in the distance is
Charring Cross. Inspired by a photograph of Bill Clinton being covered by an umbrella as he stepped off an aeroplane.
The other additions to the image came to me slowly as I thought about shelter and its implications. This is a reworking of a digital print of the same name. top of page This is a reworking of an aquatint of the same name. This image came about because of all the talk of culling magpies
on the radio news at the same time as we were bombing Iraq. My dad gave me a small album of photographs of my relatives to scan into the computer.
One of the images made this idea come into my head Set in Lyme Regis, it has the Cobb at the top. send an email to
neil woodall
"Throwing the Moon"
