Recent work

Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with larger scale prints and here are some of the outcomes:

I have also completed the following print which is now available to buy on my Etsy:

Ohh Deer Notebooks

I recently won a competition to have my one of my designs turned into notebooks for Ohh Deer, an online platform for illustrators and creatives. They have their products stocked in some of my favourite places including Magma and the Design Museum. Below is a picture of the notebooks and they are now available to buy here: http://ohhdeer.com/product/stuck-repeat-4

March sale

With the onset of Spring I have decided to have a sale in my Etsy shop throughout the whole of March. There are a few offers there already and I'll be adding more throughout the month so be sure to check back regularly: http://www.etsy.com/shop/HandPrintedByDavid?section_id=11231748

I Love Japan

I was recently involved in an illustration project to produce a colouring book for children affected by last year's tsunami and its aftermath. The plan is to provide 1000 free copies to children in Japan and to sell another 1000 around the world. Below is a collage of some of the work to be included. If you would like your own copy they are €10 and you can email me at handprintedbydavid (at) gmail.com and I will arrange a copy for you.


More information is here: http://japan-i-love.blogspot.com/ and here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-lOVE-JAPAN/198978900141679

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

We made the trip north this weekend to visit Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Beautiful art in beautiful surroundings - who could ask for more?

Henry Moore

Barbara Hepworth

Antony Gormley

Winter/Hörbelt

David Nash

This time its colour...

Recent photos

I sent a few films off for processing last week. Here are my favourites from the black and white film:

Pattern making

I spent a large part of this weekend making patterns:

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

We made a trip up to Birmingham yesterday to see the Craft Council's Lost in Lace exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. While not a massive lace fan, my partner is and I was pleasantly surprised that a few of the pieces in the exhibition I really loved. 


Nils Völker uses Tyvek to produce breathing sculptures:

Chiharu Shiota uses black thread to create grids in which she places objects which makes them inaccessible and distant:

And Kathleen Rogers uses Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Confocal Laser Microscopy (CLM) to map lace and produce a really interesting - almost sci-fi - film which an ambient soundtrack

Also in the gallery was the Tessa Sidey Bequest which is a series of around 30 prints given to the gallery by a former Curator of Prints and Drawings upon her death. The stand out pieces for me were an inkless etching by Josef Albers and a linocut by Anthony Davies - it's just a shame I didn't take better pictures.


The gallery is housed in a Georgian building and has a couple of spectacular rooms:

On leaving the museum, the city's library is opposite and there was a lovely piece of commissioned art wrapping around one side:

My tools

My tools
Linocut with hand drawn detail