New Ferric Gum works on paper
Below are a few of the latest experiments working with ferric chloride and pigmented gum arabic…..
Sea Sculpture
A beautiful work that is in the current Aquatopia show at Tate St Ives. This object was salvaged from the wreck of a trade ship thought to be a Chinese junk, dating to approximately 1725. This corresponds to the reign
Biohydrometallurgy article
A fascinating article about Bio-mining written by Chris that featured in the Camborne School of Mines Journal recently. Kennecott Bingham Canyon copper mine (photo by Ravell Call / The Deseret News via AP) Biohydrometallurgy: a tale of tiny miners
Real wrought iron
Above you can see some of the wrought iron plates we are experimenting with. The iron comes from Chris Topp & Co. based in Thirsk, Yorkshire. They are the only supplier of real wrought iron left in the country and
John Sabraw
This image is one of John Sabraw’s Chroma paintings. Sabraw is an American artist who has been using AMD to create pigments then used in painting. You can find out more about the project and see his work here.
FeCl3 Mk 2
We have cooked up two new batches of Ferric Chloride. One using AMD from Wheal Jane tailings and the other using a culture from Kasese, Uganda. The baume of both is still low (16 and 20 respectively) but having done
Nicola Martini
A few images from Martini’s recent show at Kaufmann Repetto…. From the press release: ‘Martini saturates the walls and ceiling of the gallery in bitumen of Judea, rendering the boundary between “space”and “artwork” porous through his physical engagement with the
India Flint
Flint is a natural dye specialist. As she says on her website: maker of marks, forest wanderer & tumbleweed, stargazer & stitcher, botanical alchemist & string twiner, working traveller, dreamer, writer and the original discoverer of the eucalyptus ecoprint …dyeing
Wheal Maid
Photos taken by Chris at Wheal Maid near Bissoe. Wheal Maid dates from the mid 1700’s and raised small amounts of tin, arsenic and lead ore. It was part of the Consolidated mines near St.Day and was once described as
Latest prints…
Some of the latest prints made with Ferric Chloride. All have been exposed to sunlight but only the final print was coated with gum arabic.