Title

Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura

Date made

1970 – 1970-1971

Category

Print

Print types

relief | planographic or intaglio

Technique

wood-engraving, printed in intaglio in black ink, from multiple bamboo blocks; over lithograph or aquatint etching, printed in colour from three plates

Text printed from matrix

No inscription

Edition information

edition of 60; 5 artist's proofs

Production notes

this print uses an intaglio technique, allegedly invented by Palmer, where a bamboo shoot is split, flattened, engraved, then printed with a simple press. See Peter Cape, Prints and Printmakers in New Zealand (Auckland: Collins, 1974)

Subject category

Landscape: water

Subject description

Landscape of a creek, silver tree fern and sky at Karamatura Reserve, at Huia, a settlement on the coast 45km south-west from Auckland, New Zealand

Legacy id

217298