Martin Truefitt-Baker
Artwork

I think that finding the right combinations of cutting tools for a relief printer is one of the hardest choices to make.

Properly cleaned and cared for rollers should last a long time. I've developed this small group of rollers over several years, to end up wit

One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl and Four for a boy Five for silver Six for gold  Seven for a secret never told  Eight's a...

There have been no shortage of cold, stormy and rainy days this year, so I spent some time up on the mountainside where I had originally see

I ended up fascinated by the poetic idea of an otter swimming in the reflected stars and Milky Way of the night sky.

Fox bluebells spring linocut print purple blue green bracken wildlife vulpes stitchwort bees forest

I've been lucky to have work in three exhibitions starting in January. I managed to get up to Conwy for the opening of the Royal Cambrian...

Well it's been another arty, exciting and busy year, with all of the usual highs and lows of life. I've made a fair amount of art, never...

A couple of months ago I was invited to take part in a pop up exhibition by Carl Bevan, a Cardiff artist whose work I admire. By some...

This reduction linocut was inspired by a trip out in July this year while I was walking through some fields where the meadow cranesbill...

I've seen kingfishers on the river Usk (south Wales). Sometimes even by the Crickhowell bridge but not that often. My experience of the...

My latest reduction linocut is of two badgers up on the hillside in the winter on a crisp chilly day. The hawthorn trees up on the...

I've recently bought a Gunning etching/multi print press from Ironbridge Fine Arts and they have very kindly invited me to exhibit in...

When I design a linocut I often take the elements of the design, cut them up and rearrange them till I'm happy. It's only another step to...

A nice online article has been published about my work and how I make it. It is in the blog section of the Handprinted website. link...

A slightly varied edition. They are all the same tonal range. I think the image processing has made some lighter. The field where the...

It has taken a long time to finish this print for one reason or another. From the first ideas and sketches it has been nearly three...

The process of reduction linocut printing is very unforgiving. Once a slither of lino is cut it is almost impossible to put it back. The...

This is one of two recent prints I’ve been working on over the past month or so. Hopefully the other one of a pinecone will be finished...

a trickster's tale this wintertide fox prowls unflurried in snow's drifts nose to the scent trails scaped against the land cast in silent...