Jenny Gunning The AGA Factory Aquatint Etching ‘Dark’

Jenny loves recording history s0 she wanted to capture what remains of this incredible building before it comes down. The AGA Factory Coalbrookdale

This  Aquatint Etching is printed onto Somerset Satin 300gsm paper with Ironbridge Fine Arts own Ink using Jenny’s Gunning Etching press in her lovely studio in Ironbridge.

Using her drawing skills Jenny works out in the landscape to capture the detail she needs to create her plates. 

Jenny loves the old and the abandoned, but also the astounding and incredible. Jenny loves to find, record and then enjoy choosing the right printmaking technique to represent the drawings that she wants to make into print.

Taking her drawings back to her incredible print studio and Gallery in Ironbridge (that she designed) which is situated right next to the river Seven, she then has a wide range of printmaking mediums she can choose from.

Jenny loves all printmaking and has been printmaking since she was 7 years old. She loves aquatint etchings and she particularity enjoys making large work. 

Photopolymer is also a love of hers as well as spit-bite, mezzotint, dry-point, lino, reduction, straight lino, straight woodblock, Japanese woodblock, reduction woodblock, collagraph and letterpress.

Full time printmaker in her own right as well as supporting all of her Gunning Etching Press customers as Jenny’s family buisness has been hand building and distributing the Gunning etching presses for over 41 years. Jenny has to be excellent in her printmaking skills to support customer’s along side producing her own work.

Jenny’s absolute love for printmaking is at the heart of Jenny’s every day practice.