Acknowledgements

Cover artist: Alastair Clark

Gale-force, by Alastair Clark

The image 'Gale-force' is from a series of ten original prints, From the atmosphere, by Alastair Clark.

Based on weather satellite imagery the series begins with 'approaching storm' which was created by altering and combining real life satellite passes. Through the series the satellite imagery is increasingly transformed showing a change of view and perspective. The sources were altered and developed using 2d and 3d imaging programmes before being combined with hands-on printmaking techniques in lithography and screenprinting.

Throughout this set of prints, references are made to false-colour imaging, radar images and isobar charts which are all diagramatic conventions used by science as a way of representing organic, chaotic systems in nature.

'I like this fusion of order and chaos. Any sequence, like a weather sequence, lends itself to representing change and gives a context to increasingly abstracted images. Working within a series has allowed me to mirror the changes in nature which occur in both short and long time scales. Science has a way of interpreting and representing nature with which we are now visually familiar. It is from this filtered viewpoint that I have drawn my inspiration for this series.'

Alastair Clark 2003

Title: Gale-force
Date: 2003
Image size: 40 x 57cm
Type: Lithograph, limited edition of 6 prints

To contact the artist, email Alastair Clark

Prints are available from Edinburgh Printmakers:
› www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
› www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/artpages/clark/

Source images courtesy of Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, Scotland: www.sat.dundee.ac.uk

Best Scottish Poems 2004 funded by