Low Tide Birling Gap Print

Original silkscreen print on Arches Aquarelle 365gsm paper.

"Found in the middle of the Seven Sisters on the Sussex Coast, Birling Gap is part of the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, one of the longest stretches of undeveloped coastline on the south coast.
I went there at low tide to draw and paint out on the seaweed strewn boulders, below towering cliffs of chalk, to really get a sense of the awesome cliffline stretching away towards Brighton. So immersed was I in the drawing that I forgot that tidal forces were at work and was only alerted of that fact by water lapping around my feet. I escaped being washed away by a whisker."

Image size: 57 x 38 cm.
Paper size: 73 x 55.5 cm.
Edition of 75, numbered and signed.

Andy Lovell’s work as an illustrator and printmaker is informed by making drawings and paintings from life which are then revisited through the medium of print. The original drawings are not an end in themselves but rather aim to catch the essence of a place in a form that can be translated to print back in the studio. He is drawn to the immediacy that the screen-print and monotype processes both allow and encourage and which result in a gestural and often graphic interpretation of these initial sketches and paintings done on location that capture a real sense of mood and place.