Jonathan Gibbs
100 TREES - RUN, WALK, CYCLE & SWIM
Every day I made a print onto a wood panel, on the first day with one hundred stamps of an inked rubber. This number diminished incrementally during the progress of 100 Days. I set out in the morning for a run, a cycle ride, walk or to swim in the river near to my home. Taking the print in my track-suit pocket, I stopped en-route and pinned it to a tree for its photograph. At the end of one-hundred days I had a bundle of wooden panel prints. The last day has one black square, the first has one-hundred such squares printed onto the wooden surface.
The project was concerned with printmaking, the creation of one hundred separate art works. These are portable, moveable. It was also concerned with place, my location, the landscape, and with trees - walking in the woods in all weathers, at different times of day, different trees. I was not always at home, so that there are urban environments, London, Chippenham, Cambridge, East Norfolk, Glasgow, as well as this corner of East Lothian.
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