Cyan Magenta Lemon Black

Cyan Magenta Lemon Black

David Bellingham, 2012

The chance discovery of a set of printers proofs, from a Duckworth and Co.

Essences Ltd calendar of 1912, in Rare and Racy second hand bookshop in Sheffield,

provided the source images for the print Cyan Magenta Lemon Black. As a lemon ripens

it changes colour from green to yellow, here the standard coloured inks of the four

colour printing process echo this transit. Layers of ink - cyan magenta yellow black,

are equated with the layers of a lemon - rind pith pulp juice. Yellow becomes lemon,

juice becomes ink.

The print comes in a standard signed and numbered edition of 30 copies (33.8 x40.5cm) and as a folded concertina in a signed and numbered edition of 100.

It was printed in four colour letterpress by Glasgow Press

Both the print and the concertina are available to purchase from the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

davidbellingham.com

Title - Cyan Magenta Lemon Black

Artist - David Bellingham

Print - four colour letterpress

printed by - Glasgow Press

published by - The Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh