In the mid 90s I worked on a handful of etchings, all of street scenes from around the Nottinghill Gate area of London. Technically, they were rather difficult to complete, involving building up a rich body of cross hatching by etching and re-etching lines and shown below is the zinc plate I spent the most amount of time on (the dark spots are where the metal got stained by something). The reflective nature of the metal masks how dark the image was when I printed it.
My aim was to emulate the technique Rembrandt perfected, but that ambition somewhat outstripped my talent so in the end I gave up on the pictures and moved onto something slightly less punishing and more achievable. However all was not lost, as a few years later the church ended up in some of my relief etchings and, thanks to Google, I can now pinpoint the street and building it was based on. The etching is a mirror image of the scene.
Depicting the cars as shadowy shapes was inspired by Bill Jacklin's impressionistic paintings and prints.
Rembrandt
Bill Jacklin
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