Katherine Jones / Clear Surface
The cover of our 12" vinyl release of Ultramarine's Interiors features a collograph and block print by Katherine Jones. Her imagery matches the music neatly in its nuanced interplay of solidity and shadow, line and colour, geometric form and organic growth. Below is a short film showing the creation of Clear Surface.
Katherine Jones is a contemporary British artist working in a combination of painting and traditional printmaking techniques. Her work revolves around perceptions of safety and danger, focusing on ordinary objects, spaces and buildings as a framework to begin to question these themes.
Public collections holding Katherine’s work include the V&A Prints and Drawings Collection, The Ashmolean Museum and Yale University Library. Find out more about Katherine’s work
“Hammond and Cooper sound utterly at ease and lucid, expressing their musical ideas with startling dexterity. If this was indeed the sound of a group re-connecting with their craft, then they made the return to the studio sound effortless”
Four of the five tracks that feature on our 12” vinyl release were issued digitally in 2020. But as Paul Hammond has pointed out, “with Ultramarine, the whole point is to create an artefact, so the form and the look of the finished product is central.” That’s an outlook shared passionately by Blackford Hill, and the music now available on this vinyl record is appropriately enhanced with Katherine’s print.
