Springtime Thrift
Perched on a cliff edge on a western shore of the Isle of Lewis in May 2019, I was surrounded by the bobbing flowers of the thrift, pushing out from between the fragmented surface of Lewisian gneiss. The stark combination of flora and rock was made all the more stunningly and especially beautiful by the sound of the boiling sea, some sixty feet or so below me.
Dizzied by the very idea of looking over the edge, but in love with the location and the feeling of spring blossoming around me, I sketched away at what would become - several weeks and a few hundred miles later - Springtime Thrift.
Eleven layer reduction linocut, edition of 10
Hand pulled using oil based ink on Japanese Hosho paper
Printed area approx 15x20cm, paper approx A3
10% of the proceeds of sales of the original print will be donated to the Linda Norgrove Foundation.
Perching precariously on the top of massive sea cliffs, and thankful that the wind was blowing inland, Springtime Thrift is a record of a surreal and wonderful day and night spent on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, where some of the oldest rocks in the world vie for attention with drifts of the most stunningly beautiful and storm-battered machair.
Greeting card reproduction of my linocut print, Springtime Thrift.
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 Springtime Thrift, cropped to a perfect square. Published by PaperBird, these lovely cards come with a wonderful surprise cut out and keep bookmark on the reverse. Springtime Thrift was made after a trip to the Outer Hebridean Isle of Lewis, where I spent a memorable night sleeping in a bothy on the cliffs of the west coast. The next morning, I sat sketching with the waves crashing way down below, gannets wheeling to their nests, and the indomitable thrift - sea pinks - growing through the cracks in the Lewisian Gneiss rocks all around me.
15x15cm supplied plastic free with a brown recycled Kraft envelope
Blank inside for your message
Printed in the UK on card from sustainable sources