David Blyth: The Book of Spring Lambs - Untitled

David Blyth: The Book of Spring Lambs - UntitledIn his first suite of screenprints, produced by Peacock Visual Arts, local artist David Blyth returns to the subject of lambing and domesticity in a playful exploration of colour, pattern, image and surface. Evocative of the brash home furnishings and kitsch dcor of his late grandmothers home, the colourful series shows the maternal bond between ewe and lamb creating a patterned backdrop of banal memory and tender kinship; the works plastic aesthetic

Claire Roberts

Edition Size: Artist Proof - (this print is marked AP II)

This complex screenprint by Moulding – produced by layering several colours both opaque and transparent over one another – creates a psychological geometric landscape that arrives as stated in its title – in flux

The title uses old lowland Scots language with 'cantrips' meaning 'a magical spell of any kind'

The relationship between printmaking and books is very strong

nominated for his 2009 project white peak | dark peak (Public Art Category)

The brochure for the folio describes it as such:

Paper Size: 76 x 56 cm

Paper Size: 51 x 48

and of course defeating the Galacticos on the way to their historic 1983 triumph

Especially with the magazines

The imagery contains a set of metaphysical symbols and references to the Hermetic