Author: richardjamesstephens

Each year the Oxford Natural History Museum puts together a major temporary exhibtion, and in 2019 this looked at the ‘First Animals’ that appeared on earth around 540m years ago. The exhibition displays some remarkable fossils from China and their own collection. In addition the Natural History Museum invited the Oxford Printmakers to produce some prints inspired by the fossils. I therefore produced a set of 4 prints using a fossil called Diania Cactiformis in the style of Andy Warhol. The idea was to fit an image of the fossil (and the rock in which it had sat for half a billion years) in various combinations and colours.

This is the first of this series of 4 (below are the full set)

• Variable edition of 20
• Image size approx 220mm x 170mm, paper 500mm x 350mm
• Priced as a ‘large’ print (see current Prices in the Menu)
• Printed: May 2019

Each year the Oxford Natural History Museum puts together a major temporary exhibtion, and in 2019 this looked at the ‘First Animals’ that appeared on earth around 540m years ago. The exhibition displays some remarkable fossils from China and their own collection. In addition the Natural History Museum invited the Oxford Printmakers to produce some prints inspired by the fossils. I therefore produced a set of 4 prints using a fossil called Diania Cactiformis in the style of Andy Warhol. The idea was to fit an image of the fossil (and the rock in which it had sat for half a billion years) in various combinations and colours.

This is the second of this series of 4 (below are the full set)

• Variable edition of 20
• Image size approx 220mm x 170mm, paper 500mm x 350mm
• Priced as a ‘large’ print (see current Prices in the Menu)
• Printed: May 2019

Each year the Oxford Natural History Museum puts together a major temporary exhibtion, and in 2019 this looked at the ‘First Animals’ that appeared on earth around 540m years ago. The exhibition displays some remarkable fossils from China and their own collection. In addition the Natural History Museum invited the Oxford Printmakers to produce some prints inspired by the fossils. I therefore produced a set of 4 prints using a fossil called Diania Cactiformis in the style of Andy Warhol. The idea was to fit an image of the fossil (and the rock in which it had sat for half a billion years) in various combinations and colours.

This is the third of this series of 4 (below are the full set)

• Variable edition of 20
• Image size approx 220mm x 170mm, paper 500mm x 350mm
• Priced as a ‘large’ print (see current Prices in the Menu)
• Printed: May 2019

Another little print, inspired by the woodcuts of William Nicholson and the covers of Blue Note jazz albums

• Edition of 5 (1 green, 1 red, 1 gold, 2 blue)
• Size: image 160mm x 160mm, paper 200mm x 200mm.
• Priced as a ‘small’ print – see Prices in the Menu
• Printed: Dec 2019.

Another little print, inspired by the woodcuts of William Nicholson and the covers of Blue Note jazz albums

• Edition of 5 (2 green, 1 red, 1 blue, 1 gold) and 3 further ones with the colour offset (1 green, 1 orange, 1 pink)
• Size: image 160mm x 160mm, paper 200mm x 200mm.
• Priced as a ‘small’ print – see Prices in the Menu
• Printed: Dec 2019.

So, I ‘sliced and diced’ 2 photos of Roy Harper, to make this little series of 4 prints – the big print below is IV and underneath are I, II, and III.

• Edition of 6
• Size: image 265mm x 355mm, paper 350mm x 500mm
• Priced as a ‘large’ print (see current Prices in Menu)
• Printed: Jan 2020

So, I ‘sliced and diced’ 2 photos of Roy Harper, to make this little series of 4 prints – the big print below is III and underneath are I, II, and IV.

• Edition of 6
• Size: image 265mm x 355mm, paper 350mm x 500mm
• Priced as a ‘large’ print (see current Prices in Menu)
• Printed: Jan 2020

So, I ‘sliced and diced’ 2 photos of Roy Harper, to make this little series of 4 prints – the big print below is II and underneath are I, III, and IV.

• Edition of 6
• Size: image 265mm x 355mm, paper 350mm x 500mm
• Priced as a ‘large’ print (see current Prices in Menu)
• Printed: Jan 2020

So, I ‘sliced and diced’ 2 photos of Roy Harper, to make this little series of 4 prints – the big print below is I and underneath are II, III, and IV.

• Edition of 6
• Size: image 265mm x 355mm, paper 350mm x 500mm
• Priced as a ‘large’ print (see current Prices in Menu)
• Printed: Jan 2020

This little print was made on a course at Print Club on CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) printing (highly recommended by the way).

CMYK printing involves over-printing the 4 layers (in YMCK order) so that the tiny dots overlap and create every colour – see the stages, and a close up, below.

• Edition of 5
• Size: image 170mm x 225mm, paper 250mm x 350mm
• Priced as a ‘non-standard’ print (see ‘Prices’ in the Menu
• Printed: Nov 2019