Beached Whale letterpress In the spirit of Thomas

In the spirit of Thomas Bewick I have made a wood engraving on English Boxwood

not being able to see our families

producing an edition of 24 copies on Fedrigoni Materica paper that were printed here in Shipley on my SP20

and a herbal created of pressed flowers

45cm x 45cm (image size)

Beached Whale letterpress In the spirit of ThomasIn September 2021 a whale was washed up at the end of Stvarfjrur fjord. I completed seven one month art residencies in Iceland, and this was the fourth. Although I had previously found small pieces of whale bone on that beach, and later on Achill Island on Irelands west coast, this was the only time I have ever seen a dead whale close up. In the course of the following week the carcass was washed back out to sea by the tides. The collagraph is a