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.
