>Terry said<
>>I deny it on the basis of the experience of twenty years.<
>pete said<
>Only the work produced, as displayed on the wall at the end of the day , will
tell .
>Not how clever you think you ,are or how many years you have been doing
it.
>As you imply Pete, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.<
In my reply to this communication I may have inadvertantly given the wrong
impression.One of the problems associated with this medium is that sitting
in front of the monitor in isolation it is far to easy to go from the
particular to the general without fully realising it , you kind of think
out loud, and not fully realise that you are in fact communicating with a
lot of people, not just sitting there brooding.
On rereading the above bit I realise that it could be read as if I am
questioning my good friends gum printmaking ability,of course this is of
far from the truth.
Terry is a habitual exhibitor only recently he exhibited work in the RPS show at
Bath, during the vacation, and some of my students came back to college
last week full of praise for his great work.
I met Terry in 1978,at a Seminar organised by the RPS at the then
Societies house in South Audly street the seminar was entitled 'New paths
in the pigment processes,when I was demonstrating an early precursor of the
gum-oil process .
Anyway master Terry decided to gate crash this event, believe or not Terry
was even more outspoken in those days than he is now, needless to say he
soon had the the assembled company curled up in fits of laughter,but as he
brought out his work a hush fell over the audience, to start with the
prints were 20 * 16 inchs in size, very large for those days when a 10* 8
was considered big, but what was really impressive, the tonal quality
seemed to sing out of the prints, which had a glow with an inner light,
indeed I still have an iconoclastic image in my mind of a shot of The
Palace of Westminster taken from the other side of the Thames on a very
misty day, to me this print typifies the quality found in a gum print which
is difficult to acquire by any other process. In my mind this image more
than any other demonstrates Terry's mastery, of the gum printmaking
process.
Terry
>Have you heard about the masochist who liked cold baths so he did not take them
?<
pete
Or the sadist who , when a masochist begs to be whiped , says certainly not !
what a sad old pair ! :-)
pete