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Printmaking, and in particular, etching appeals to me because the process has a profound impact on the image. Every part of that process involves risk, from laying the ground, applying an aquatint, to drawing, biting the plate and finally the printing itself. Those processes influence and change the image, sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad and the printmaker has to embrace both the happy accidents and the disasters. To quote Mick Jagger,

“You can’t always get what you want

But if you try sometime you find

You get what you need”.