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Poets and artists

Linda Nevill

I love printmaking – it’s unpredictable and exciting and collaborating with poets has led to my working with new ideas in different ways.

Images – Rock and Fossil Festival Exhibition September 2009

'A Lasting Impression'. This print links to impressions of life found in the ground and is based on the upturned strata at Wren’s Nest and studies of rock and fossils. I also discussed with Nick Pearson the changing and decomposition of lost and buried words.

My 3-panel plate was constructed from a variety of materials including carborundum grit, pumice, netting, card, and tile grouting into which I drew and scraped textures. The whole construction was inked up and placed onto an 8 foot piece of paper and then run over by a roller to create my print.

Collagraph – relief printed with drive-on roller.

I also re-inked parts of the plate and hand printed it on long strips of thin Chinese paper to create a coloured 3-part variation which I have entitled 'What lies Beneath'.

The Kingdom of Gabbro, 40cm x 30cm etching.

In April I spent a fascinating day at Dudley Museum looking at sections of rock through a microscope and I found that I loved the beautiful abstract patterns of Gabbro.

My etching plate reminded me of an aerial view of a continent so I inked and printed it in a reddish pink similar to that used on old empire maps.

The piece links to Emma Purshouse’s poem 'Greta Gabbro'.

'Fossil Man', 29cm x 29cm collagraph print.

My collagraph print relates to the idea of the fossils in the man’s hand coming to life and turning into creatures in the Silurian Sea. A magical idea!

This piece links to Jane Seabourne’s poem of the same name.

Images - Light House Exhibition April 2006

'In Retrospect'. This links to poet Emma Purshouse’s witty poem entitled 'Love Poem for a Mod'. The image picks out key symbols such as Emma wearing a parker, a target, a lambretta and the pier at Brighton where we carried out some of the research.

'Spot the ball'. I was intrigued by poet Dave Finchett’s fascinating account of finding all the tracings his father had made of the Spot the Ball competition. As he showed me layer after layer of images with tiny crosses my own ideas of creating a layered print started to form. I incorporated some scanned tracings as a collage element in my etching/carborundum print.

'Lost'. This work links to Emma’s poem entitled 'Here is the News' about feelings of disorientation and the apparent displacement of buildings around her.