Winter
Limited edition linocut print on Somerset Satin paper (unframed)
10.5 × 14.7 cm (printed area)
Number of prints in the edition: 10
‘Winter’ revisits an earlier open edition print called ‘Words like the earth’. The line inscribed into the stone is a monkoku that I wrote a good many years ago.
words like the earth need their winter
It is a phrase that shares a sentiment with one of the earliest English poems (The Wanderer) three of whose lines read:
it is in a man no mean virtue
that he keep close his heart’s chest,
hold his thought-hoard, think as he may.
but above all it is connected with the sense that ideas, good ideas, need time to settle in the mud of their own creation, and that silence and fallow times result in their harvest.
‘Winter’ is limited to 10 prints. Each print in the edition has been pressed by hand with a silver spoon — the slow way. The paper is Somerset Satin (250 gsm) and I have hand-torn it to sheets measuring approximately 18 × 24 cm. The ink used is Cranfield Traditional Letterpress Seville Black. Each print is signed, numbered, and titled in soft pencil beneath the printed area.
Limited edition linocut print on Somerset Satin paper (unframed)
10.5 × 14.7 cm (printed area)
Number of prints in the edition: 10
‘Winter’ revisits an earlier open edition print called ‘Words like the earth’. The line inscribed into the stone is a monkoku that I wrote a good many years ago.
words like the earth need their winter
It is a phrase that shares a sentiment with one of the earliest English poems (The Wanderer) three of whose lines read:
it is in a man no mean virtue
that he keep close his heart’s chest,
hold his thought-hoard, think as he may.
but above all it is connected with the sense that ideas, good ideas, need time to settle in the mud of their own creation, and that silence and fallow times result in their harvest.
‘Winter’ is limited to 10 prints. Each print in the edition has been pressed by hand with a silver spoon — the slow way. The paper is Somerset Satin (250 gsm) and I have hand-torn it to sheets measuring approximately 18 × 24 cm. The ink used is Cranfield Traditional Letterpress Seville Black. Each print is signed, numbered, and titled in soft pencil beneath the printed area.
Limited edition linocut print on Somerset Satin paper (unframed)
10.5 × 14.7 cm (printed area)
Number of prints in the edition: 10
‘Winter’ revisits an earlier open edition print called ‘Words like the earth’. The line inscribed into the stone is a monkoku that I wrote a good many years ago.
words like the earth need their winter
It is a phrase that shares a sentiment with one of the earliest English poems (The Wanderer) three of whose lines read:
it is in a man no mean virtue
that he keep close his heart’s chest,
hold his thought-hoard, think as he may.
but above all it is connected with the sense that ideas, good ideas, need time to settle in the mud of their own creation, and that silence and fallow times result in their harvest.
‘Winter’ is limited to 10 prints. Each print in the edition has been pressed by hand with a silver spoon — the slow way. The paper is Somerset Satin (250 gsm) and I have hand-torn it to sheets measuring approximately 18 × 24 cm. The ink used is Cranfield Traditional Letterpress Seville Black. Each print is signed, numbered, and titled in soft pencil beneath the printed area.