Temple Threshold (Framed)

About the work

“The work is one of my largest woodblocks to date. Working at this scale, with such delicate paper, and printing everything by hand rather than using a press has certainly made this challenging. It takes a lot of time. There is always the pressure to produce things, to be productive. But the advantage to being slowed down by the process is you fall deeper into it.” – Matthew Lintott

Matthew Lintott is a visual artist with a specialisation in woodcut relief printmaking.  His work is an exploration of deep time and space, as witnessed through the past and the wild and remote. He views his work as a collaboration with the past, and with the ancient materials he works with. Inspired by myth, symbolism, and the geological perspective, Lintott’s practice is further informed by cross-disciplinary field research in geology and paleobiology. He uses recurring visual motifs of landscape and abstracted animal forms to create ‘modern relics’, which aim to offer the viewer a gateway to the ancient. He is based in Bristol, working from the Bricks community studio space, and prints predominantly by hand without the use of a printing press. This piece is a handmade woodblock print on Japanese Atsukuchi paper.