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

10 years later in June 2014 I had another brief sojourn in the flat at the top of the college tower overlooking the everchanging drama of the Sound of Sleat although I had made many oils and watercolours relating to the time I spent above the Sound of Sleat I had never made any prints so decided to do so

Formally speaking

Paper Size: 66 x 51 cm

this piece was derived from a song of the same name from the forthcoming sophomore record from Aberdeenshire band

As an illustrator

David added a de-embossment that follows the leadlight of the window

The image was subsequently proofed on to newsprint

Paper Size: 89

Taking subjects as diverse as religion

She was also able to visit the ethnological and First Nation collections held at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver

Whilst taking a position on these experiences might constitute views from opposite ends of the telescope

Paper Size: 84 x 56 cm