Gyotaku Impression taken from the surface of Pacific Oyster Shells

Gyotaku Impression taken from the surface of Pacific Oyster ShellsThe Pacific Oyster is a commonly farmed oyster here in the UK. These shells come from an oyster farm about 7 miles from my studio. Based in the waters of the Menai Strait, Sean and his family farm oysters in this tidal water and they are very popular during the summer here on the Island of Anglesey. Printing from shell is pretty technical as the hard surface can often break the paper as it's pressed over the surface. To print multiple shells is also

I've swapped it around so in some places I've applied yellow then red then blue

The original design is taken from a Gyotaku print of a Sea Bass and I’ve added some of my water colour work to it to produce a digital design

Printed on fine Chinese xuan paper

the paper is then mounted using the traditional wet mounting technique of uruachi

ensuring a unique composition every time

Then a backing sheet is applied to the print and the two sheets are left to dry overnight

it's captured a lot of the scale detail

The print would be supplied as shown in the white frame

Lobster are a challenge to print as they are so 3 dimensional

approximately 70 x 34

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Each panel