
Abney Wallace Esoterica Linocut Prints
Each hand printed image is numbered and signed by the Artist.
These are linocut prints. This means that each image is carved into linoleum using tiny u shaped gouges. The knives used to carve with come from Japan. They’re tiny, hand-forged u-shaped gauges. Once the carving is complete, the linoleum plate is inked using a roller called a brayer. What you see when you look at a print is the inked linoleum that remained after carving. What reads as white was all carved away from the plate. The ink is an eco-friendly soy based printmaking ink. Once the plate is inked, the paper and plate are carefully run through a hand turned etching press, transferring the image from the plate to the paper. This is a painstaking process and doesn’t work every time.