and sometimes a third, edition. However, the editions rarely amount to more than 60 impressions in total. Bostock was often experimental in his approach to technique. Economic as well as innovative considerations led him to use a variety of materials as a matrix as well as the usual boxwood, endgrain block. During the I950s and 1960s Bostock experimented with colour on a few blocks, usually by overprinting with linoblocks. Although achieving some remarkable results Bostock considered that a black and white image was always more powerful. In 1988 Bostock provided twelve small wood engraved prints to illustrate a reprint of poems by the poet, Edward Thomas. References External links James Bostock website 1917 births 2006 deaths 20th-century British painters British male painters British wood engravers Olympic competitors in art competitions People from Hanley, Staffordshire 20th-century British male artists 20th-century engravers