Engravings. Most of these engravings are on boxwood, a very slow-growing, scarce and therefore expensive wood. If scale demands, I sometimes use Japanese engravers’ plastic. Engravings are usually much smaller than linocuts, something to bear in mind when looking at these images which are very much smaller in real life than they are on the screen. The image beneath for example, is roughly postcard size. All prices are unframed contact me at christophermaxpig@yahoo.com, if you’d like to buy one.
Mexican night, engraving, edition of 40, £60. Kids dress up for themed culinary evenings, here we see Sam in a lucha libra outfit made from a Power Rangers mask and his pants accompanied on plastic ukulele by his Mariachi twin, Frank.
Tiggy’s funeral, the burial of a goldfish, wood engraving, 15 available, £65. An interesting article on this engraving by Dr Bethan Stevens appears in Printmaking Today Spring 2017
Shot, engraving, 24 x 17cm, edition of 20, £160. I saw this happen, an innocent bystander getting hit by bullet intended for one of the London Fields Boyz. It was purchased by the Ashmolean Museum and features in the exhibition Scene Through Wood, a century of modern wood engraving which is on at the Ashmolean Museum at the moment.
Floating eye of Death, wood engraving, 6 x 8cm, edition of 10, £55.
Battle scooters, wood engraving, 6.3 x 8.4 cm, edition of 30, £55
Weren’t doin’ nuffink, wood engraved triptych, 6.4 x 12.4cm, edition of 30 £145
Tarifa, wood engraving, 10 x 15.5 cm, edition of 20, £165. Drowned migrants were on the TV news nearly every night when I lived in Spain.
Blue remembered hills, wood engraving, 10 x 7cm, edition of 14, £45
Zombie Apocalypse, never die alone, wood engraving, 8.5 x 14cm, edition of 25, £120.
Ghost, engraving, 39 x 28cm, £120. This one was the joint winner with Hilary Painter of the Society or Wood Engravers’ award at Originals 09.
Dead rat, wood engraving, 7 x 10.5cms, £55.
Italian night, wood engraving, 6 x 6.5cm, edition of 30, £55.
Country walk, wood engraving, 6.2 x 8.7cm, edition of 20, £55
Two of my favourite mammals, wood engraving, 65 x 100mm, edition of 20 £65
Nervous, wood engraving, 60 x 104mm, edition of 20, £45
“Last wash“ engraving 39x34cm, £240.
Barbers, Oxford 2020, wood engraving, chine collè 17 x 28cms. Edition of 30 £340
Hermanos, wood engraving, 15 x 20cms, edition of 30, £110.
Tuesday to Thursday, engraving with chine collé, 15 x 20cms ed 100 £165
“The Dab Hand”, engraving, 30 x 20cms, edition of 50, £140. In victorian engraving workshops there would be one person whose job, apart from engraving, would be to print his or her colleague’s work. They would use a dabber to ink-up the block, hence the expression “a dab hand“.
The High Pavement, engraving, 23 x 35, edition of 30, £140