Gregory Day — Fine Art Printmaker
Drawing · Photography · Cyanotype · Screenprint · Lithograph · Metallic leaf
"Landscape as something unstable: a place of surface, distance, memory, romance and disruption."
Gregory Day — artist statementBritish artist and printmaker working across drawing, photography, mixed media and limited edition print.
Born in 1980, Day studied fine art and printmaking before moving to London in 2001. He lives and works in London and is director of Worton Hall Studios, working with Coriander Studio and Curwen Studio. This studio context is central to the work: print is treated as image, process, material and encounter.
Cyanotype, screenprint, lithograph, metallic leaf, paper and hand-finished surfaces appear throughout the editions. The works move between romantic landscape and modern fragility — sea crossings, billboard backs, altered views, climate, paper residue, the quiet pressure of the image as object.
Surface
Billboard backs, paper residue, weathered metal — the found mark as composition.
Memory
Sea crossings, altered views, romantic landscape pressed against its own fragility.
Process
Lithograph, cyanotype, screenprint, metallic leaf. The medium is inside the meaning.
Edition
Strictly limited. Never reprinted. Hand-signed. Every print individually distinct.
"Print is treated as image,
process, material
and encounter."
The studio context is not background — it is inside the work. Working with Coriander Studio and Curwen Studio means each edition carries the accumulated knowledge of master printers.
Hand-finishing — metallic leaf, overprinting, surface intervention — makes every print in an edition individually distinct. No two prints are identical objects, even within the same edition.
Cyanotype
A photographic process using iron salts sensitive to UV light. Exposure to sunlight with a negative or object placed on top produces deep Prussian blue tones. Day uses cyanotype for works where light itself is the medium — the exposure becomes part of the image.
Screenprint
Ink pushed through a fine mesh screen onto the print surface — each colour requires a separate screen and pull. Day works with Coriander Studio, where the accumulated knowledge of master printers shapes every edition.
Lithograph
A planographic process in which the image is drawn onto a flat stone or plate. The chemistry of oil and water keeps image and blank areas separate. Curwen Studio is Day's partner for lithographic editions.
Metallic leaf
Gold, silver or copper leaf applied by hand to individual prints after the main edition process. Each application is individual — this hand-finishing ensures no two prints within an edition are identical objects.
Photography
Photographic source material underpins many works — billboard backs in South America, sea crossings, landscape fragments. The photograph is rarely the final object; it is a stage inside a layered process.
Drawing
Line and mark-making at the root of Day's practice, from initial compositions to marks made directly onto printing plates or screens.
Hand-finishing
Surface intervention applied after printing: overprinting, leaf, varnish, incised marks. Each print receives individual attention, ensuring no two objects within an edition are exactly alike.
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