About Arc Link Art

 

Arc Link Art was born from a desire to share the quiet joy of printmaking with those who see the poetic in paper, ink, and line. Each limited-edition print is a carefully crafted expression—reviewed by hand, individually numbered, and made with an artisanal sensibility that honours centuries of printmaking tradition. Here, time-honoured techniques meet contemporary tools, producing fine art prints on lush cotton rag paper using richly pigmented inks.

John’s journey into printmaking began in the late 1960s, captivated by the silkscreen posters plastered around his university campus. Eager to understand their making, he acquired a screen and inks, setting up a makeshift print studio in his bedroom. It was here—through playful trial and error—that he began to experiment with delicate lines of colour, even crafting makeshift pens from glass syringes filled with blockout lacquer to create the fine linework seen in early works like “Ophelia.”

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From these first explorations, John moved deeper into traditional printmaking: dry point, acid etching, lino cut, and the demanding beauty of stone lithography. When digital drawing tools like the iPad and Apple Pencil emerged, he embraced them as a natural extension—finally able to merge the tangible and the imagined with more freedom than ever before. The result is a body of work that dances between reality and abstraction, precision and play—each print a quiet celebration of thought, texture, and form