Hybrid Prints
2009–2024. Photogravure intaglio over isolated colour inkjet elements.
2009–2024. Photogravure intaglio over isolated colour inkjet elements.
2014. Photogravures of greatly enlarged plastic and porcelain dolls in varying states of damage and decay.
1999–2025. The small sets of prints in this collection explore a wide variety of subjects, content, and processes for entries in international mini-print exhibitions.
2007–2009. Explorations with four-plate CMYK photogravure: a difficult and demanding process.
2003. Photogravures and 3-D views of the limestone alvars of the Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland, and Co. Clare, Ireland.
1991–2005. Photogravures documenting the struggle of trees surviving difficult environments.
2001. Copper-plate photogravures documenting small, desiccated creatures caught in full flight or mid-gesture.
1999. Portraits of Animal Aristocrats. A portrait gallery of compromised taxidermy printed in photogravure.
1998. A Bestiary Fragment – Excerpts from Medieval bestiaries, with letterpress and gold leaf on photogravure portraits of awkward taxidermy.
1995–2011. I set out to learn the photogravure process in 1994 with my partner, Marlene. We were told that it would take us seven years to really understand and control this complicated photo/intaglio process.
2020, 2024. Produced by DeadCat Press. Very limited editions, available from the author.
A random collection of letterpress projects, from bookmarks to broadsides. All made using a Challenge–15MA flat-bed proofing press.
1981. My first letterpress bookwork. Its production was an inventory of observations, autobiographical details, wood engravings, and technical printing methods.
1981. Crown and Brim, by A. N. Wlock, my first letterpress book as printer-publisher.
2020, 2024. Produced by DeadCat Press. Very limited editions, available from the author.
2014. JAB35, Spring 2014 issue of the Journal of Artists’ Books. This issue’s artists’ book insert was a co-production with Marlene MacCallum and Newfoundland writers, Lisa Moore and Jessica Grant.
E. A. Poe’s classic poem as a hand-bound miniature book with an embossed silk cloth cover.
2018. Biographies of the protagonists in the apocryphal history of the Lyric Cranium Collection and Archive.
2016, 2023. The Lyric Cranium ceased to exist after August of 2016, when it was dismantled and packed for moving. It lives on in the records I create, such as this small booklet.
2013, 2023. Alpha & Omega features images drawn from a collection of almost three hundred postmortem portraits, mainly of children, that are part of the Hornan Post Mortem Portrait Archive which once resided at The Lyric Cranium.
2011. Mapping the Bay of Islands is a four-volume collaborative publishing project with Clifton Meador (NorthWest), Pierre LeBlanc (NorthEast), David Morrish (SouthWest), and Marlene MacCallum (SouthEast).
2011. A visual catalogue of the considerable variability of colourful garbage bin designs found throughout Saint-Pierre, the capital of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, just off the south coast of Newfoundland.
2010. A re-interpretation of a Victorian photo album that examines the fading past and the missing dead, with a structure designed to allow the unfolding of initial and final enlargements of key images.
2010. Produced as part of Printed Matters: The Disembodied Book Made Whole Again, an experimental book-structure workshop in Corner Brook, NL with Scott McCarney in 2010.
2010. A pamphlet bound booklet that documents a detail from my visual impressions of a small Ontario cemetery.
2008. A nine page image sequence which deals with mortality, from the Autumn 2008 issue of BlackFlash magazine.
2004. Limited edition hand bound bookwork with thirteen copperplate photogravures and letterpress.
2000. A tribute to ma tante, Léonie Guyot, who treated me with puddings from this pan since the 1950s. Now I get to use it.
1981. My first letterpress bookwork. Its production was an inventory of observations, autobiographical details, wood engravings, and technical printing methods.
1981. Crown and Brim, by A. N. Wlock, my first letterpress book as printer-publisher.
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