After Turner
Lithograph, 2006
Edition of 25, signed and numbered by the artist
Artist's statement: I am here transcribing...
Paper size 38.5cm x 58cm
£ 560 (approx. US$ 790, € 625)
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Artist's Statement
I am here transcribing as laboriously as can be imagined a fragment of a drawing by Turner done at his maximum speed. With its thousands of dots this is in effect a slow motion replay on a large scale analogous to what one sees on TV sport programmes. It highlights Turner’s most personal drawing shorthand whose urgent calligraphic brilliance first excited me when I looked at the original in the study room of the Tate’s Clore Gallery. I made pencil sketches on that occasion and was provided with a photograph. I worked up the pencil drawings by means of dots into a small vignette in negative: I made a xeroxed enlargement of this on to good paper and worked over the result with thousands more dots to capture the nuances of Turner’s penwork. Thus roughly ten hours of my time represent an estimated ten seconds of Turner’s, as might be thought only fitting.