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Julian Brasington
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Artist working in print, dry media, verse. North Wales. https://www.julianbrasington.co.uk

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I’m in the middle of a major rebuild of my website and am currently curating the work that I’ll show there. As part of the process, last night I gathered together ink-jet printouts of some of work that I’ve done over the last few years and laid them out randomly […]

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January 27, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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First proof print from the finished block. The columnar basalt cliffs of Rubha Hunish on the northern tip of Skye. 75x75mm wood engraving.

To the right, the engraving in a lemonwood block, after printing.
January 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Wouldn’t it be lovely if all was calm, still, and not subject to the whim of a few self-aggrandising people and the machines that support them. Perhaps one day. Until then, here’s a short poem I had published in Ink Sweat & Tears in 2024, and a linocut I made a […]

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January 13, 2026 at 11:53 AM
First proof and this is one I am really going to have to think about. 15 x 15 cm linocut, mostly improvised on the block and suffering in the end from too much happening. That said, if you like detail, it might be worthwhile wandering around inside it for a bit […]

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January 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Detail from a linocut work in progress. This is a block I abandoned a year or so back and came upon last week. It’s one of those ‘let’s see what happens pieces’ and I’m enjoying playing with it. Hoping to proof it next week before deciding where to go with foreground (not in this picture).

#linocut
January 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
One for the poetry peeps out there.

You can read similar stuff at:

https://www.julianbrasington.co.uk/poetry

#poetry
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Living on the coast, it’s perhaps inevitable that the sea flows through my work and so I’ve added a filter to my website that allows you to search for seascapes in the shop. This photo shows a few of the prints and drawings that you’ll find there […]

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December 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
‘Looks like murder’, 22 x 20 cm linocut of The Street, Castle Combe. When I printed this piece it struck me (with its brooding blacks and stark whites) as a scene out of a 1930s murder mystery — hence the title. It is a print I made some three years back and such […]

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December 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A still night in the mountains. ‘Un Nos Ola Leuad’ (one moonlit night) is a 4.5 x 6 cm boxwood engraving which I have hand-pressed to Somerset Satin paper. If you know North Wales, you’ll likely recognise Castell Dolbadarn as its subject. The title for the print […]

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November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Watercolour on Two Rivers handmade paper, the thick stuff. 79x56 cm.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just mailed out my latest newsletter. If you’d like to receive them in the future, you can subscribe from my website and unsubscribe whenever you want. The latest one has news of a recent commission by Amgueddfa Cymru / Museums Wales which I am looking forward to […]

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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Wide format so you may have to play with this. 14 x 43 cm charcoal and Pierre noire drawing in a Stillman & Birn soft cover sketchbook. Eglwys Sant Baglan sits on the shore of the Afon Menai (Menai Strait) in North west Wales. A few years back I made a wood […]

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November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Charcoal drawing based on fragments of a 12C baptismal font housed in the Musée Art et Histoire, Bruxelles. Somerset Satin paper, 56.5 x 26 cm.

I had intended more detail in this drawing but I reached a point yesterday where it felt finished. It said enough. And […]

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November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Came upon a box of Conté pencils when I was tidying up this afternoon and got distracted. Not quite got the angles nor the shade right on this drawing but it was good to work with the pencils. Just need to finish tidying up now.

#drawing #conte
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cold hard stare. Sketchbook drawing — graphite on Ingres laid paper.

#drawing #portrait
October 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
New blog post on drawing without looking at your drawing. You may find it interesting if you’re looking to try something new.

https://www.julianbrasington.co.uk/blog/the-hand-knows-what-the-eye-sees
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Been doing a lot of these lately. Compressed charcoal on heavy cartridge paper.

#drawing #charcoal
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Sat listening to Ólafur Arnalds ‘Momentary - choir version’ on loop and with my eyes closed I got the urge to draw with my eyes shut. I put two A3 sheets of paper together on my easel, shut my eyes and, with my right hand holding the top of the easel so that I […]

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October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The things that lodge inside us.

Saw a stunning cloud formation yesterday and went to draw it in charcoal and this happened. I do and don’t like it as a drawing. The little house was added as a final touch and was unintended at the outset. It makes the […]

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September 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Layered drawing. Working through an idea. This was going to be bigger and then it felt right to stop so I stopped. Lines in graphite lain one upon the other to see what can’t be seen. One of a series of pieces that I’m working exploring the hidden. Zoom in and walk around.

#drawing
September 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Currently working on a charcoal and Pierre Noire drawing on this abandoned Ty Hir. It’s a place that I visit often and have watched steadily decline.

#drawing #ynysmon #abandonedplaces
September 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Pen Llŷn. Work in progress. Charcoal. Not sure how this one will turn out. I’m building it up slowly in the hope of holding onto the light.

#drawing #charcoal
September 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just posted a short blog which borrows from John Berger’s notion of point of crisis in the drawing process and applies it to the writing of poetry and the trickery of words.

The image is a detail from a linocut of mine called ‘Between words’ […]

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August 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Tidying up my studio today I came across a very light ghost print that I had made a couple of weeks ago. Rather than stashing it away, I decided to work on it with a mix of willow charcoal and compressed charcoal. Very liberating.

#drawing
August 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I’ve had this piece on the back-burner for a year or so now, wondering what medium I might use. Decided to give monotype a go the other day and I’m pleased with how it’s come out. The print is 10 x 18 cm on Sunome Senaka paper. The verse is a poem of mine. You’ll […]

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July 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM