todays printing

I love the fact that lino blocks are art works in themselves...

In fact a couple of different galleries have asked me for framed lino blocks in the past - I think for display purposes and to explain printing processes to visitors as well as for their own aesthetic merit.

I have always said no, because I like to hoard my lino blocks.  Maybe because I spend so much with them, or because when an edition has sold out they are all I have left (although by then they are all stained with ink and not quite as beautiful as the one above, inked for the very first time!).  They do also go a bit strange and brittle after a very long time being hoarded in my lino block drawer and will probably end up making very good compost if I leave them there for long enough...which I will...