Andrew Carter

Andrew Carter’s linocut prints, ‘All the Days of December; Ittens Star and Piero’s Palette’ are from a series of prints that he has made over the last three years. There are 32 individually cut blocks made from leaves found on Peckham Rye throughout December. They are Linden leaves, symbols of hope and fertility. In these colour arrangements Carter has created dialogues with different artists using the leaves as a playful colour palette. In ‘Piero’s Palette the colours were matched to elements in Piero Della Francesca’s Baptism of Christ in the National Gallery, whilst in ‘Itten’s Star’ 32 blocks are overlayed exploring the colour combinations in Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten’s colour theories.

His other landscape composition, ‘Moidart’ was made this summer after travelling to a remote part of the Scottish Highlands Carter says;

“After creating watercolour studies and drawings I alighted on this complicated pattern of marks depicting the figure of my nephew, Jack, on the rocks in Moidart. He seemed tiny and fragile in this massive space and yet I knew he was totally engaged with fishing for mackerel and coley. I have tried to cut this block using hundreds of fragmented, calligraphic marks, reminiscent of the great engraver, Thomas Bewick and Van Gogh’s reed pen drawings. I am interested in the pattern and the space.”