The Roller Coaster

The Roller Coaster
This image was designed and printed to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first roller coaster to incorporate wheeled vehicles running on tracks.
The Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville was built in Paris in 1817 and featured wheeled cars securely locked to a wooden track with guide rails to keep them on course. Surprisingly the technology hardly changed until 1959 when Disney introduced tubular steel tracks allowing the vehicles to incorporate loops, corkscrews and many other more exotic variants of the original up, down and round trajectories.
This abstracted four colour lino reduction print is loosely based upon Grace Robertson’s iconic 1950’s black and white image ‘Luna Park’
Print dimensions 590mm x 413mm
Oil based relief printing inks on 300gsm Canaletto acid free paper
Printed at the BipArt Print Studios in Kemp Town Brighton
Alan White 2017