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'Goldfinches on Spearthistle' is a Framed hand coloured etching by Chris Allan.

Full title: Flower of Sotland, Goldfinches on Spearthistle

An edition of 12

Medium: Drypoint on Copper, hand coloured on Somerset and Arches 300gsm

Dimensions: 53.4cm x 26.6cm (Unframed)

Chris Allan began his artistic career as an abstract painter, before refocusing his interests over the past 15 years to explore the natural world around us. The results are expressed through acrylic and watercolour paintings, and in intaglio printmaking-etching, aquatint and drypoint.

Chris Allans drypoint prints are based on full size studies from life, mostly in watercolour pencil. The flora are cut from the hedgerow and drawn in the studio. The fauna are variously drawn from life and from museum specimens or adapted from photographs and book illustrations.
Drypoints are among the simplest of prints to make. You scratch the design into the surface of a polished copper plate with a hardened steel point. The furrows you cut, and the displaced metal ( called burr ) thrown up by the point will both hold ink,
and are printed like any engraving or etching. However, the processes of inking and printing soon wear the image down, limiting the number of good impressions .

His work is included in collections at the British Museum andThe Hunterian Art Gallery

Exhibitions include:

Arts Council of Britain at The Serpentine

Chris Allan

'Goldfinches on Spearthistle' Hand Coloured Etching, Framed