Woodcuts | Lasercut – B&W

Woodcut | Lasercut

Artists have always embraced printing. The first prints may well have been images applied to a rock face using the hand as a stencil. Chinese printers and then Guttenberg made huge leaps forward with moveable typeface, as did etched plate printing and then lithography. Warhol brought commercial screen printing into a fine art context.

When I saw a laser cutter working for the first time I immediately comprehended the potential it could have for relief print making. These woodcuts were cut using a laser cutter working from a digital image file. Colour was added using separate blocks. The potential is limitless.

Best of all is printing the laser-cut woodblocks on a Columbian press that was the new printing press technology of the late 1800’s.