Feast and Family
My family lives all over the country. We often don’t get together for months on end, except for once a year: Christmas Day. We are all in the same room, to share a meal, to talk, laugh, fog up the windows with cooking and human bodies in the depths of winter. The food is plentiful, the drink flows, we have to wash up between courses as we run out of crockery, and it’s just lovely.
As coronavirus restrictions meant that our annual Christmas meal couldn’t happen in 2020, I made this linocut print to preserve what I was yearning for: an end to social distancing, a chance to have all of my best people together under one roof, to hug, eat and share a meal. It’s human nature to need this social closeness.
Three block linocut, edition of nine plus one artists’ proof
Hand pulled using oil based ink on Japanese Hosho paper
Printed area approx 15x20cm, paper approx A3
Greeting card of my popular linocut print Feast and Family. A celebration of the family Christmas meal we couldn’t have whilst coronavirus restrictions prevented us getting together for Christmas 2020.
7”x5”, blank inside for your message, comes plastic free with a brown Kraft envelope
Printed in the UK on 100% recycled card
A reimagination of my popular linocut print Feast and Family, inviting one more guest to the fray. Published by PaperBird, these lovely cards come with a wonderful surprise cut out and keep bookmark on the reverse. Feast and Family was my 2020 Christmas card: a reminder of the social mixing I was missing in the depths of winter in a global pandemic, and a promise to myself of brighter days to come
15x15cm supplied plastic free with a brown recycled Kraft envelope
Blank inside for your message
Printed in the UK on card from sustainable sources