First, I cut away the areas from the lino-block that I wanted to stay white, and then printed it in red. Then I cut away the areas that I want to stay red, and print that in black, on top of the red.
The image itself combines the influences of lots of things that I have been looking at recently (though the effect of the influences is quite diluted by the time they reach the paper):
-- the "Revolution on Paper" exhibition of Mexican prints at the British Museum
-- (deceptively) simple linocuts by Robert Taverner and Christopher Brown
-- the Warhol room at the Tate's Pop Life exhibition which had a wall of his celebrity portraits
-- and even the way we hung my paintings in groups of four and nine at a recent exhibition.
