Hand Printed Lobster from Anglesey by Jane Evans

Hand Printed Lobster from Anglesey by Jane EvansIf you like coastal art then this is for you. My lobster prints are made here on the Island of Anglesey in North Wales. I'm lucky enough to have a home studio with a view across the Menai Strait to the Snowdonia Mountain Range. I'm one of many Anglesey Artists producing original art for you home. It's hard sometimes to make people understand exactly what the Gyotaku process involves, many people don't realise I'm working with an actual lobster and

The print is made using the traditional methods and is wet mounted using the uruachi technique which uses a simple water and flour paste that I make myself

The card is 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured and comes with a kraft envelope

Japanese hand made paper

They retract much faster and also smudge when printing

Please feel free to message me directly if you'd like to get a quote for a framed print

he was clearing down his bait tanks on the Menai and had pulled out half a dozen prawns and a pollock

It will be rolled in a poster tube and protected with acid free tissue paper

It will be shipped using Parcel Force on an insured service

knows I print

I've printed the same prawn here twice

I then take a glue I make myself from flour and water and paste the back of the print

Crab is quite a difficult specimen to print from