LINOCUT 2020 (INTRO)

By: Lawry Hutcheson
February 12, 2021

We are delighted to present LINOCUT 2020, the latest in a calendrical series of prints created (in this case, during 2020) by HILOBROW friend and brother-in-law Lawry Hutcheson.

I’ve been making linoleum block printed calendars for three years now. This series features my twelve monthly images from 2020.

I’d done silkscreen printing before, but I wasn’t inspired to try my hand at lino printing until one of my colleagues had us do a cut-an-eraser-into-a-stamp activity at a staff retreat. I was also inspired by the calendars from Bread and Puppet Theater.

There’s a lot to learn — and between my work and my kids, I don’t have so much time to devote to this activity. The calendar format has given me deadlines, though, so each month I just go for it and get a print done. If I mess something up, I know I’ll get another chance next month.

I get my ideas from what’s going on around me or how I’m feeling or what I’m thinking about. Most of the prints I’ve done are a mix of imagination, memory, and observation in different proportion. I generally try not to work from photographs.

How many copies of each print do I make? A dozen copies fit across the workshop, hanging up to dry, and that’s usually about when I feel like stopping. We keep one copy apiece for each of our three kids, to write things on; one for all of us; and one for the archive. The rest get distributed among family members.

Thanks for looking! The 2021 series is already underway….

LINOCUTS: JANUARY: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024. FEBRUARY: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024. MARCH: 2020 | 2021 (1) | 2021 (2) | 2022 | 2023 (1) | 2023 (2) | 2024. APRIL: 2020 | 2021 (1) | 2021 (2) | 2022 (1) | 2022 (2) | 2023 (1) | 2023 (2) | 2024. MAY: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 (1) | 2022 (2) | 2022 (3) | 2023 | 2024. JUNE: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 (1) | 2023 (2) | 2024. JULY: 2020 | 2021 (1) | 2021 (2) | 2022 | 2023 (1) | 2023 (2) | 2024. AUGUST: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024. SEPTEMBER: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024. OCTOBER: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024. NOVEMBER: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 (1) | 2022 (2) | 2022 (3) | 2023 | 2024. DECEMBER: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 (1) | 2022 (2) | 2023 | 2024.

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LINOCUT 2020 (INTRO)

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