This print is about being in a café in Porto, with a pale blue expanse of weather-beaten table-top plus a skylight bringing light into a dark cave of a room. The feeling I wanted to convey was of being engrossed in drawing and being marooned in a sea of carpet, the table as a raft.
It's a two block linocut print, with selective inking and wiping of the colours on both blocks. The work is for sale. Price €165
Wuon-Gean Ho was born in Oxford, and graduated with a BA in History of Art from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. She later studied MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, graduating with a distinction in 2016. She is based in the UK where she works in print, artist’s books and animation. Her current works are part of a three year project of 100 prints, called Diary of a Printmaker, which she started when she was a fellow at the Royal Academy Schools, London.
Birthdate: 22/03/1973
Nationality: United Kingdom
Website: printplay.wordpress.com
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