Name: Coloured print

Media: Linocut

Conservation:

• With most printmaking media’s (other than Japanese woodblock prints) are safe to immerse in water. Water refreshes the paper fibres as well as lets the invisible chemistry of Hydrogen bonds ‘draw out’ the soluble discolouration within the fibres that make the sheet of paper

• Tray shows the amount of discolouration rinsed out. It is this discolouration which masks the colours or watercolour nuances of a work on paper

• With this linocut the discolouration is mostly due to the poor quality mount used to frame this print, and the mount darkened the margins of the sheet of paper.