In October 2025 my parents made the long bus, train and boat journey from their Northumberland home to visit us in our new house in Orkney. Whilst he was with us my dad taught me how to lay a hedge, and we laid one of the more overgrown specimens in my garden on their last day here. As I write this in September 2026 the hedge is thriving, and despite a gale currently blasting it, still has a full set of lush green leaves.

Hedge Laying is a celebration of a visit, but it’s also about something more universal: the sharing and passing down of skills, the bonds of family across distance and generations.

This is a limited edition of 100, hand pulled on a Victorian Columbian press using oil based inks on Kitakata paper.