Overview of the
INK WATER-COLOURS
of 1980 to '87

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Discovery and Invention
The First Watered Ink Works

To the Inkworks of May '80

4 Small and 4 Large from May 1980

On May 4th 1980, as experiments continued with the green paint, a momentous discovery happened. Bloore washed out one end of an ink line with water. After all, this was Watercolour Paper was it not? He had dabbled with this idea a few months before, notably in the painfully beautiful 802050105, but not this way. Close inspection reveals that in fact the washed out end of the line was lain in extra fine masking tape and reads white there.

1980 May 4 (802480504) 18x24" 46x61cm, gouache and ink on paper

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Discovery and Integration
Blue Watered Inks, 1980 to 87
Small, Large and Extra Extra Large

To the Blue Inkworks of '80-'82'

Working with blue 1980 to 1986
Small Works, Large, Extra Large and Extra Extra Large

In the last piece of the preceding series we see a hint of the next, as usual. After the water separates the ink into its constituent colours - the non-sumi inks that is - the blue ink gets absorbed into the paper before the golds. Bloore found that the golds could be pulled away with a paper towel leaving only the blues. He added this trick to his quiver of techniques. In the ensuing years varying amounts of blue would appear in the drawings.

1982 September 16, ink on paper, 22x30" 58x77cm (840114b)

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Home-made Walnut Ink
Golden Browns

To the Blue Inkworks of '80-'82'

Small Works from September 1980 and late 1982

In the last piece of the preceding series we see a hint of the next, as usual. After the water separates the ink into its constituent colours - the non-sumi inks that is - the blue ink gets absorbed into the paper before the golds. Bloore found that the golds could be pulled away with a paper towel leaving only the blues. He added this trick to his quiver of techniques. In the ensuing years varying amounts of blue would appear in the drawings.

1982 June 6, ink on paper, 18x24" 46x61cm (822040606)

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December 2005 Untitled No.41 (242411228), 48x48" 122x122cm, oil on masonite
permanent collection Art Gallery of Peterborough

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February 2005 Untitled No.43 (252430207), 48x48" 122x122cm, oil on masonite
Private Collection

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The Leaf Series
A Culmination of Composition
Large and Extra Large

To the Leaf Series of '85-'86'

Developing a Single Motif

In the last piece of the preceding series we see a hint of the next, as usual. After the water separates the ink into its constituent colours - the non-sumi inks that is - the blue ink gets absorbed into the paper before the golds. Bloore found that the golds could be pulled away with a paper towel leaving only the blues. He added this trick to his quiver of techniques. In the ensuing years varying amounts of blue would appear in the drawings.

1985 September 8, ink on paper, 29x40" 78x105cm (851220908)

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