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<\/a>All the prints are taken from limited edition sets, printed using either multi-block or reduction methods. There are also a number of new black and white prints, some as part of the “Canal Linocut” series and other one-off editions. The official Canal & River Trust poet laureate, Jo Bell, will be showing a number of her poems alongside Eric Gaskell’s prints.<\/p>\nEric Gaskell says: “The eddying waters, the still water, the rain peppered surfaces. The multi-storey, the warehouse, the cottage and the boatyard. The barge, the boat, the lock-gate, the keel and the ropework. All these things and more keep me returning to the canal as a continuing source of inspiration to create figurative and abstract image.\u201d<\/p>\n
This new set of work uses a variety of lino\u00a0 and relief printmaking techniques, and looks at both the small things on the canal, the gear, the gates and the big things. The work covers a wide range of motifs, that I think combine to give a different view – my view – of the canal.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Eric Gaskell<\/strong> has been creating art, illustration and design for more than 32 years and has exhibited widely in one-man and group shows in the UK, Europe and the USA. He has work in many private collections and his small book “Canal Linocuts” (available online) has become a cult book for collectors. Eric is running a Linocut Workshop<\/strong> at Ellesmere Port on Saturday 15th June – for more details and application form see the\u00a0Canal Junction Events page<\/a>.<\/p>\n