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
