Chris Orr: My Heart Is In The Highlands - But My Love Is In The Lowlands

Chris Orr: My Heart Is In The Highlands - But My Love Is In The LowlandsChris Orr started making prints in his twenties, and discovered the power of the multiple to communicate. Lithography was a slow starter, but after a difficult apprenticeship he began to revel in its freedom. Printmaking is a way of taking his thoughts into a published public domain. The relationship between printmaking and books is very strong. The print is like a page and in much of his printed output there is a hidden text. He invites people to

‘Antarctic Landscape’ is an image that has evolved from the card that Frances makes every year and sends with seasonal greetings to her many far scattered friends who live from Scotland to Slovenia

Hugely reminiscent of Picasso

Neither copy or simple homage

Bob Batchelor was born in Georgetown

or children exploring an attic

Two strong threads within my work of recent years run through the suite

as well as his professorship at Kingston University in London

Year: 2020

Medium: Relief Print

he explores the relationship between objects

and a terrible battle resulted

along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago