Wild Swimmers
Etching and aquatint
21 x 26cm including border (actual image 12.5 x 17cm)
Edition of 40, 20 available
£90
 
United by the exhilaration of ice cold water, where momentarily the comforts of modern life are abandoned to feel something beyond words.
An etching and aquatint for my Wild Swimming series.
I have redrawn my pencil sketch onto a grounded zinc plate with an etching needle before placing the plate in an acid bath. The exposed line is 'bitten', leaving deep grooves to hold ink. I added an aquatint to achieve the tones.
The plate is inked for every print in the edition, meaning each one is unique.