"Rootling" a 3 layer reduction in green or pinx! Thinking about the lost native species of the UK and what a pre enclosure landscape might be like. #reductionprint #boar #linoprint
Rachel Holborow
@rkwanderings.bsky.social
Botanical drawings, lino print, zines, riso, York UK. Mailing list http://eepurl.com/i-rLDw Webstore https://rachelholborow.onlineweb.shop/ Workshops tbc
“The Plot Chickens” My newest woodcut reduction print 🐓🐓 70 x 50cm, edition of 55 #handprinted #printmaking #printsky #blockprint #artsky
"Rootler" Layer 2 reduction. Planning on one more darker layer. Light, midtone and dark can be a useful way of reduction printing, though often I don't do it this way 😂. #reductionprint #linoprint #boar
New 2 block lino print "Mistlethrush singing into the storm" which is the energy I'm aiming for as we travel forth. #newprint #linoprint #printmaker
"Our August Tangle" a #reduction #linoprint of our garden. I worked spontaneously outside in the garden using 2 layers of water based ink, 2 of oil based. Trying to be loose and enjoy mucking about. It was a lot of fun and very in keeping with our wee rented garden. #printmaker #botanicalart
Escaped Goat 2: a 36 page #zine #riso printed about my youth doing #riotgrrl thangs . rkwanderings.etsy.com/listing/4344...
Life's been stupid hectic. I've been part of the York Printmakers Festival of Print in a pop-up on High Petergate. I'll be there again, end of August. Been #muckingabout with #collographs #tetrapack & #repeat #blockprinting and #zine writing. Some of which be seeable at York Zine Fest 2nd August!
I keep a sketch book in my bag and muck about in it as often as I can. It keeps me together. What about you? #sketchbook #york #shropshire #botanicalart
My first wood engraving. It's blimmin hard to carve in comparison to lino! #printmaking #woodengraving
#printpromptmonday #spring themed my just finished 4 layer reduction print "keep safe" based on a bullfinch nest. #nest #wip #wildness #eggs #bullfinch
#printpromptmonday on Thursday of course: this self #portrait is"The Unkeepable Pumpkin Wife" part 2 of my In Her Hair series unpacking how patriarchy affected the women in my family via sayings and shame & the reclamation of relationship with wildness. #wildwomen #printsky
Here's my super late #printpromptmonday #earth themed two layer + jigsaw lino print "Wintering" featuring a rabbit and bulbs literally sheltering in the Earth from the gorgeous ravages of winter's cold wind. It's set in the Hole of Horcum! #yorkshire #printsky #wintering #rabbit
New tiny #reductionprint in progress - a bullfinch nest. Two layers in is usually a hopeful point in the process. #linoprint #printsky #artsky #wip doing York Open Studios again this weekend if you'd like to see this print in progress.
Ready for some April prints everyone? Gettem hot n fresh here! @printsbythebay.bsky.social, @strangford.bsky.social and I have concocted these beauties, get stuck in and don’t forget to please *share the graphic around* - it really helps us spread the word ❤️ Read below for some tips…
Here's some #friends for #printpromptmonday magpies guarding sleeping female consciousness..."seven for a secret" thanks @gemmatrickey.bsky.social @strangford.bsky.social & @printsbythebay.bsky.social for the awesome prompts
My studio/ front room is taking part in York Open Studios the next 2 weekends. I'm venue 10 and you can all the info on York Open Studios website. It's a brilliant chance to chat all things print making. #printmaking #printsky #openstudio #linoprinting
That moment when a shaft of sunlight illuminates the depths of colour in oil printing inks is how I am interpreting this week's #printpromptmonday #magic theme. My studio will be open the next two weekends as part of #yorkopenstudios if you'd like to see "3 Wise Women" irl!
Sketchbooking - every spring I want to draw all the plants. I never manage it! #sketchbook #botany #artsky
🎺 The Print Prompt Monday - March Prompts 🎺 Interpret the prompts however you want! You might want to hold off posting anything until we make the weekly Monday 6pm post (just you’ll get more engagement then) Give this a share! #printpromptmonday #printing #artshare #art #illustration
Spoilt for choice with this week's #printpromptmonday #foliage - my very favourite thing to look at and carve! Here's "Trespassing" from a couple of years back.
For #printpromptmonday #inprogress here's this very close to being fully carved A3 lino print - the third in my personal generational exploration series "In Her Hair III: a yard of ditch water". The print is of my mother who was told when growing up that "her hair was a yard of ditch water"...
Throwing this print from 2021 into the ring for print prompt Monday “Seal of Disapproval” 73x26cm Lino print #printpromptmonday #water #printmaking #artshare #art #linoprint #illustration
This week's #printpromptmonday on a #water theme: offering from the past year's archive - super hard to photograph "Depths". A joyful carve, but I printed it onto handmade paper that buckled as it dried. I was happy with the textures though, I tried to not "overprint" and mucked about underprinting.
Serving this week's fish dish #printpromptmonday #flip theme - "salmon of knowledge" 2023 a 7 layer reduction - flipping tail and a right brain flip - I can tell you! Wish I'd got more than 7 out of the edition. (Psst! UK Northerners - I do workshops - mailing list link in bio).