Bullseye Gyotaku Print

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By Jane Evans
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

35 × 51 × 0.5 cm

Materials:

This print was made using Chinese paper, Acrylic Ink and a fish. Yes that's right a fish. Gyotaku is a method of printing where you ink the specimen and then press paper over the surface to create an impression. By it's nature, every print taken from the same fish will be unique as they are re inked for each print. The fine paper is then cockled and we use the uruachi method of wet mounting to flatten the paper ready for framing.

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Limited Edition Print

Medium
2022
Edition of 1.
Signed on Front
Requires Framing
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The majority of my work is based around what's available locally. For me here in North Wales that's a lot of sea bass, lobster and crab. This summer however we were on holiday in Capbreton, France and I picked up this rather lovely specimen at the fish market on the harbour. I wish I'd taken some red ink with me but you have to work with what you have so my prints are blue. I love this fish, it's got lovely scale definition and that enormous eye which indicates its a nocturnal or deep water fish. The fish is inked, paper is pressed over the fish and then the print is left to air dry before being wet mounted to another sheet of paper. The wet mounting process takes around 24 hours and once completed the print will sit well in a frame.

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