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Jude Lockie:
Respecting the Fine Line
Green Pebble Autumn 2007 issue
‘The
foundation of all good wood-
block printing rests upon the perfection
of drawing and printing, of colour and
line. These are truly essential, yet it is
also true that the artist must see the
end from the beginning.’.
So wrote Hiroshi Yoshida in
Japanese Woodblock Printing in 1939,
describing qualities which are as
essential to woodblock printing today
as they were during the art’s heyday
400 years ago: To commit to a line
because, once made, that line can
never be undone; and to see the end
product with clarity, because how else
can an artist know precisely where, and how, to irrevocably place each and
every line?
In a studio in Suffolk’s market town of Framlingham, printmaker Jude
Lockie faces precisely these challenges. She has a stock of pear wood to last
her a lifetime, yet she deliberates over every piece, carving with a handful
of favourite tools those scenes she trusts will not only translate well into
a print, but will be enhanced by the process.
‘I started off printmaking because I loved what happened to an idea;
when it went from being just a plain drawing to becoming a print,’ Jude
explains. ‘It’s always a surprise.’....
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