Lapwings and Winter Stubble
When we lived in Northumberland, the return of the lapwings to our valley was the first sign that the year had turned. The days were still achingly short, the weather normally atrocious, but the sound of those birds calling as they freewheeled, plummeted and dove in the skies brought me such joy at an otherwise bleak point in the year.
I was just emerging from the fug of raising my small children when I made Lapwings. It holds a special place for me as the moment when I decided to let my printmaking take on a more central role in my life. Like the lapwings it depicts, it was a return to a world I loved.
Lapwings and Winter Stubble is a two block print with an additional spot of monoprinting. It was hand pulled as an edition of ten.
Two block linocut with extra hand finishing, edition of 10
Hand pulled using oil based ink on Japanese Washi paper
Printed area approx 6x4”cm, paper approx A4
Greeting card reproduction of my linocut print, Lapwings and Winter Stubble.
7”x5”, blank inside.
Printed in the UK on 350gsm 100% recycled card. Comes plastic free with brown Kraft envelope.
A reimagination of my popular linocut print Lapwings and Winter Stubble, cropped into a perfect square. Published by PaperBird, these lovely cards come with a wonderful surprise cut out and keep bookmark on the reverse. Lapwings and Winter Stubble was a very early linocut print of mine, celebrating the lapwings who flew over the fields as winter began to give way to spring
15x15cm supplied plastic free with a brown recycled Kraft envelope
Blank inside for your message
Printed in the UK on card from sustainable sources