I will be at handmade and bound at the St Bride foundation this weekend with Nick Morley. I have a new screen printed book "Topless Celebrities", sixteen pages of topless celebrities in FULL colour (red and blue), 20x25cm. I'll also be selling other odds and end, and lots of other people selling more interesting stuff.

Sweet Angel, 17x17cm.
I have been fighting with this etching for a couple of days. I overbit it and was trying various things to salvage it, like some burnishing and a spray-painted aquatint.

This is a new etching "Bright Eyes", 20x30cm, for an upcoming exhibition "Survival of the Fittest" running from 20 July to 1 October at the Waterworks Nature Reserve at Lea Valley Park. It is a hard ground etching combined with a bit of photo etching and chine colle.

There may be no pantomime in June but there is ELP's annual show at Forman's Smokehouse Gallery. I'll be showing a work called "White Elephant" which is a screenprint on canvas. It is 100cm x 67cm.

"1980, the cold war. USSR invades Afghanistan, US boycotts Olympics. Mugabe sweeps to power, Rhodesia dies, Zimbabwe is born. The hockey team have 35 days notice to prepare for the Olympics. The all-white team are undefeated and win the gold. A white elephant." 

This weekend is the final weekend of our big lino exhibition in Cassington near Oxford. You can make your own lino print with a free workshop with Nick Morley http://linocutboy.blogspot.co.uk/   and have it printed with this steam roller.
FREE ENTRY.

Cassington Village Hall - and car park - OX29 4DN
Saturday 28 April, 11am - 4pm Drop in any time
 Details at http://www.hemingwayart.co.uk/

I will part of an exhibition in Stoke Newington next week. I will be showing 6 etchings along with the work of a number of other really interesting artists like http://www.doloresdesade.com/ To see some of the other work visit http://www.welovetinta.com/  

I've been on holiday so I haven't been doing much work. I did do some drawing though which may turn into something. I'm thinking of branching out into book cover design.

Another in my new series, "Blue Car", etching with chine colle, 21x21cm

A test print of a new etching "Grey Car", roughly 27cmx37cm.

This is my new linocut. It is 90cmx65cm, printed on Sunome Senaka.
At the moment it is called "Let me freeze again to death".

I am working on some large woodcuts with Steve Edwards which we will be showing as part of a "Spring at the Smokehouse" exhibition at the Foreman's Smokehouse gallery in Hackney in April 2012. These are test prints - each one is 6ft by 2ft and made using large pieces of plywood. They show the "Most Beautiful" and "Most Handsome".