This Way to Dinner (Variable Edition)

2025
Etching with aquatint and chine collé
15x20cm print area unframed
Printed on Somerset Satin 300gsm paper
Limited edition of 20 prints
 
Inspired by the footprints left behind in muddy marshland, especially tidal marshes where the soft mud is washed clean with each tide and fresh foorprints appear twice a day, this print evokes images of watching birds scour the mud for food.  The chine collé (coloured paper) is different in each impression, some impressions are ghost prints (second pulls) making the chine collé stand out more, the variable nature of the edition echoes the ebb and flow of the tide, always different, ever changing with new treasure washing and and taken out with each rise and fall of the water.  
 
It was created using soap (white) ground on aquatint, the was colour added using coloured papers applied as chine collé during the printing process.