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Norfolk artist HJ Jackson produced his first linocut print 70 years ago, with this classroom effort helping him find a place at Norwich Art School and leading him towards a lifelong affair with lino. In this new book, the artist exposes his fascination with the failed M&GN railway, the redevelopment of Norwich in the late 1950s, the varied architecture and landscape of rural/coast Norfolk and the colourful paraphernalia of the fishing industry. This is not simply a collection of linocut prints, but a showcase of the sketches, paintings, preparatory drawings and prints that form John's artistic process, taking the reader from the first idea to the final linocut – although many ideas never made it to the printmaking stage. A fascinating insight covering 160 pages and made in Norfolk.
