Jonathan's work is absolutely bloody stunning! His work cuts are intricately beautiful, their clean, bold and highly intricate quality sucks you in and invites you to stare at the detail for minutes...or hours. The moment I saw them on the mark making presentation I was immediately hooked, the way he uses lines and marks to build up areas of tone, subtle and beautifully delicate changes in line weight making very clean and smooth depth through tone. And then when you step back and admire the image as a whole, the texture these delicate marks make is very tactile and appealing, almost as if you can touch the print and feel the grain of the wood and the surface of the subject depicted.
Despite fumbling over explaining my obsession with this kind of work, wood engravings specifically, I always have a soft spot for this level of intricacy and detail. Words struggle to explain but they are very tactile and the tones built up just resonate highly with me.
I strive to improve my ability in achieving such detail, despite my work becoming increasingly looser and less refined, I think my practice will always contain an element of intricate detail and refined, pain staking and obsessive creation of marks.
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