Bill Stoves

This is something I care about a lot - linocutting. I based my degree show on the method, and I had a lot of fun doing the work. But, since then, I’ve been deferring the creation of any more lino work. Why? Perhaps because, when I was at college, there were fantastic old machines, rollers, weights, presses and benches to work with. At home, there are none of those things. It feels like any attempt I might make to create lino would be thwarted by lack of decent equipment.

But it turns out that this is not the case. You don’t need an airy studio, complete with big wooden-handled rollers, in which to do linocutting (though we can all dream). Anyone can make some lovely linocut using little more than a some lino, tracing paper and your own two hands. 

City Corner - Hans Baluschek