Tom Cogan is a wood engraving artist and expert in the art of wood engraving, that is the printmaking and letterpress printing technique, where an image or matrix of images are applied into a block of wood.
A lot of what he does is connected to the great love of, and passion for architecture, especially the great English Country Houses and our amazing historical Churches. In all Tom’s Wood Engravings there is a personal “connection”.
Functionally wood engraving is a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the ink is applied to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure. Thomas Bewick developed the wood engraving technique at the end of the 18th century.
By contrast, ordinary engraving, like etching, uses a metal plate for the matrix, and is printed by the intaglio method, where the ink fills the valleys, the removed areas. As a result, wood engravings deteriorate less quickly than copper-plate engravings, and have a distinctive white-on-black character.
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