Large Scale Folio Works
'Longitude' Original 9 plate etching printed from copper plates The ideas and context behind Neil’s Longitude etching The starting point for this work stemmed from Neil's interest in the visual world; it’s history and development through creative and inventive processes, and how these have in turn shaped the modern planet we live in. Neil was and is fascinated by the history of Longitude and how it was solved by the Yorkshire 18th Century clock maker and inventor John Harrison (1693 -1776); this became the focal point for his etching 'Longitude'.
Longitude, 189 x 256 cm, Etching and Drypoint (Edition of 20)
The Beauty of our World is being Broken, Large Scale Pen and ink drawing This large ambitious work take's it's inspiration from climate change and the impact that human kind as had on our planet, reflecting what geoligists and Academics call our current age, the 'age of Anthroposcene'.
This drawing is a mixture of complex images and messages and is aimed to show the imapact that us humans have had on the natural world and it's reources, this can be seen throughout the compositon from closed off Himalayas to visitors because of damage caused by climate change to Animals being driven to almost exstinction and the melting ice caps. To over production and mass globalisation of consumer apetite at the expence of the Natural environment and it's resources.
Clocks are featured prominanently in this work, at the drawings centre sits a medeival like doomsday clock an ominous reminder that time is running out for the World.
This complex drawing was executed by building up sequences of images based on engineering, science and exploration using traditional dip pen and ink on 6 sheets of handmade Amalfi paper conservationally joined together to form the overall picture.
Such Stuff of Dreams, Large Scale drawing, 222 x 153cm This large ambitious work take's it's inspiration from many historical sources, these include the great engineering projects of the 19th and early 20th centuries from the Eiffel tower to the fourth bridge. These are interwined in a labyrinth of other historical debris from the Renaisance and Enlightment periods and include the Tower of Pisa, Galileo's first studies of the moonand his telescope, to other voyages of discovery and beyond from Antarctica to outer space.
This complex drawing was executed by building up sequences of images based on engineering, science and exploration using traditional dip pen and ink on 9 sheets of handmade Amalfi paper conservationally joined together to form the overall picture.
'The London Connection ' Original 3 plate etching printed from copper plate based on London
The London Connection, 77 x 256 cm, Etching (Ed.A of 30) This London Connection etching portrays the development of the modern metropolis. Split into three sections, the left-handpanel represents the early 20th century, travel and links to North America. The middle section concentrates on the lifeblood, the heartbeat of the metropolis based on Britain's imperial past. Everything in this section is for display - a false paradise where the past is brought to life as a theme park. The right-hand panel represents the modern vision of the metropolis and Britain's wider role in the contemporary world, now symbolised by it's links to Europe.
©Neil John Pittaway
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