As with all artwork created for the Lossenham project the ethos was to make as much of the material needed to complete each print from the minerals foraged from the Lossenham land.

I had already ground oil pigments for paintings from the minerals found at Lossenham, but I found these would need refining in order to create usable printing inks. This was achieved with most of the pigments by mixing them with a base colour such as a printmaking white or black, changing the inks consistency and allowing the roller to pick up the ink and distribute the colour evenly over the print block. There were four separate colour blocks used in this print, each carved from linoleum, a natural material made of linseed oil and compressed cork.

The paper used is is made in Somerset and known as a Somerset satin, its quite a heavy paper at 300gsm but produces a texture, similar to the chalk ground used in the Lossenham paintings.