19 November 2024

Every year the Art and Design students create work for a pop up shop. This years theme is Vision. I have really struggled to come up with something, trawling through my thousands of photographs of horses and friends at shows. I came across a photograph I had taken of my friends Border Terrier, Kauri. Kauri suffers from uveitis and has to wear special doggles to protect her eyes from sunlight. She has the most amazing pink pair and that’s how she’s ended up being my muse for Vision.

I have seen videos on instagram from other linocut printers that were in different colours using the jigsaw technique. I had the idea that the doggles would be a bright colour so I cut them out as a seperate piece of lino.

The test prints worked out very well. I had the idea to print them in four different colours and a limited run of each. I kind of have a pop art vision of them being displayed in a square on the wall.