Mick Welbourn is a designer and he also works at the Leeds College of Art print room on Vernon Street. Having done Monoprint the day before for another project, he told us about his exhibition at The University of Leeds which included around 30 blue books. He told us that the university had bought his books after having it on display for a few months in which we decided that we wanted to visit.
Mick told us that the exhibition was called 'Blue Books' and that his books were inspired by swimming and swimming pools since he likes to swim and does it on a daily basis.
All of the books were a consistent A4 size with the pages filled inside with different shapes and shades of blue that were inspired by swimming. The designs were created by using monoprint as the choice of media and I assume that they were scanned in before being made into books. I like how the books are lined up to gradually go from light to dark. I also like the different patterns on the other stand where it has different affects of water.
I like how Mick has made all the books purely by monoprinting, the amount of work and different ideas must've taken him a while to produce. I like how he has been able to show the different shades of blue just from one layer of ink. Each book has different shapes/patterns inside so he has been very creative in how he has produced an idea for each one since there are around 30 blue books. In the cabinet, there are the original stencils that Mick used for the Blue Books.
The exhibition shows how limitless monoprinting can be and how you can achieve something by repeating the process over and over and getting something different from each output. No two design would look the same in monoprinting as they are unique as Mick has shown in his books.
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