This one is much nearer to home, the second from a series of photos I took locally, a few weeks before lockdown. I like the 'Old Master' ...

This one I have wanted to print for a while, as it was taken in Korcula, Croatia a couple of years ago. I had a pigment called Opera Rose...

This gum print I set out with the intention of making it like a hand toned old tintype print, and I think I got there. I used four negati...

A couple of weeks ago I amended my process with a couple of things, in the hope of 'improving' the prints I produce. How I measure 'impro...

Hi again. Following on from the photobook review, here is a photo of one of the pages of the book. The image is of inside St Peters Basil...

OK. Disclaimer first, Saal Digital are makers and printers of quality photobooks, posters, cards, calendars etc. I first came across them...

This is a view of part of the exterior of the barn. It reminds me so much of American plains, straight roads and miles of nothingness. Th...

This one is another single negative gum print, made of 4 layers. In one corner is this old grindstone/milling wheel. The building dates b...

Strange times, 6 weeks plus into this weird lockdown. I was hoping that this would trigger me into an amazing spell of creative experimen...

This new piece was intended more as an experiment. Although a lot of my work is monochrome I don't often get deep blacks, so I decided to...

While I have been experimenting with a couple of different ideas....some worked, some....er.....didnt!...I have still had one or two prin...

Another piece I have recently finished is this one, the second in what I hope will become a series. The ideas for this series are about a...

OK...So I haven't seemed to be very prolific of late, but to be honest I have been beavering away, even though there has been a serious c...

Here is wot I produced, another multi layer gum print.

Words by Ian Ward

Words by Ian Ward, from my first image!

Wow, it's been a hard few months over winter. I struggle with my MH from time to time, and almost always over the darkest greyest winter ...

I could leave this until tomorrow to give the two posts a bit of space, but seeing as the number of hits I get to this site aren't exactl...

It's been a while hasn't it? I have been sorting out some personal stuff but also taking a bit of time to gather all the different though...

......preceeded by a crazy busy few weeks getting ready!! On 12 & 13 October it is the Wolverhampton Society of Artists Open Studio Weeke...