Highgate Wood
Highgate Wood
The tangled branches of the ancient trees in Highgate Wood, North London, early evening.
Colour etching and aquatint
Edition of 40
Size: 18 x 18cm including border (9.5 x 9.5 actual image size)
Materials: Intaglio etching inks, Somerset Velvet paper 300gsm
Orders are carefully wrapped in acid-free tissue paper, flat-packed between two layers of board and dispatched signed and tracked within four days.
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Starting with a pencil sketch, I redraw the image onto a wax grounded zinc plate with a needle. The plate is then placed in acid which ‘bites’ the exposed line, leaving grooves to hold ink. It is inked up for every print in the edition.