Frida

Frida
Hand-carved relief print (woodcut reduction)

-Printed onto 300g/sm Somerset velvet Soft White acid-free paper using a Victorian Albion relief press dated 1866.

-Approx. paper size: 59 x 44 cm (23 x 17 inch)
-Approx. image size: 45 x 30 cm (17½ x 12 inch)

-Shipped in sturdy postal tube, wrapped in acid-free tissue paper.

Printed in a limited edition of 5.

Numbered, titled and signed by the artist. The print has 4 deckled edges and includes the artists embossed logo or 'chopmark'.
Printed by the artist at The Belfast Print Workshop.

Declan Byrne 2020

This original hand-made print is sold unframed. Paper will be curled when you receive your print. A frame will help protect and display your artwork.

What is a reduction relief print?
In relief printing, a reduction print is a multicolour print in which the separate colours are printed from the same image at different stages. Usually, the lightest colour of the design is printed first, then the block is "reduced" by carving to the areas which the artist wants to print the second colour from, and so forth. The disadvantage of reduction printing as opposed to printing from multiple blocks is that once the first colour is printed, the matrix for it is destroyed in the creation of the printing matrix for the second colour. It is impossible to undo mistakes. The Frida print was carved from a single sheet of 5.5mm plywood.