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This Week’s Article: Jon McNaught
Posted: May 8, 2011
Renowned Canadian graphic novel genius Seth recently enthused: “England has produced another artist recently who has completely won me over, Jon McNaught. Two fantastic books in a row. I am an admirer.” Seth is not alone. A recent graduate from UWE, Bristol, McNaught is making his name as one of Britain’s most sophisticated poets in comics. A landscape printmaker, he brings the mark-making and colour-mixing of traditional lithographs and relief prints to the medium, refining each borderless panel in his square-in-square grids down to its sparsest elements and painstakingly drawing and separating by hand each layer of colour, typically black, grey, pale blue and sunset pink. His narratives are less concerned with plot, drama or action than capturing melancholic moods and ephemeral plays of light and shadow, connections and contrasts between the man-made and natural worlds, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. Read the full article here…
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