The latest release from West-Yorkshire based illustrator and printmaker Jake Blanchard is a new linocut print loosely based on the classic Todmorden story of Police officer Alan Godfrey’s encounter with a UFO. One of the most famous UFO sightings to have happened in the UK; the story has many twists and turns, a murder, the body dumped atop a mound of coal, cows escaped from a farmers field, inexplicable missing time, and a Police officer disgraced by what he says he saw.
The Encounter is linocut printed on Japanese Hosho printmaking paper, using Caligo safewash oil based printing ink, and hand finished with gold Posca paint pen. Jake used Pfiel linocutting tools for the carving, and printed with a Polymetaal etching press in an edition of 15.
Jake’s work is inspired by the natural world as well as mythology and ancient cultures, and often embraces the aesthetics of psychedelia. As well as working as an Illustrator, Jake also runs record label and zine publishers, Tor Press. His work has appeared in Creative Review, Computer Arts & Design week amongst other publications.
The Encounter is available here.
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