From the series Seria Ludo, 5 woodcuts published in an edition of 20. Each print is signed by the artist on the front and numbered on the reverse Five woodcut prints by Christopher Le Brun 2015 Seria Ludo translates as “serious matters treated in a playful spirit”. Simply cut and hand printed by the artist in his studio, the directness and improvisatory quality of his woodcut technique is captured in the above title. These new prints build on the striking new developments in Le Brun’s recent painting. Colour, shape, touch, risk, all these concerns continue, but colour now dominates, accompanied by a handling of confident and celebratory energy. Seria Ludo is remarkable for the lucid way in which form arrives so clearly from the method used to achieve it. With nothing but cutting and gouging, and printed merely with the pressure of the hand, this deceptive simplicity nevertheless achieves complexity and nuance. Each print, while following the pattern of the master plate, retains a vivid sense of time and spontaneity through the deliberate unique gestural variations that hand printing involves.
