It seems that minutes must have got shorter, as I’ve not (yet) been able to find time to follow up on my initial monotype experiments. However, I did get good news on the print making front as a I found out that the linocut I entered in the Annual Open Art Exhibition at the White Horse Bookshop Gallery had sold…very happy printmaker :0)
Continuing the hawthorn theme, the may blossom has been amazing this year. When I originally made the linocut, I’d intended to make it the first in a series of four spanning the seasons. Walking the hound down the cycle path into Marlborough a couple of weeks ago I thought a charcoal sketch would be a good place to start, so I’ve been working on this:
Not entirely sure how this will translate into a linocut, but then, finding out is half the fun of the process!
I was also hoping to find some good poetry on hawthorns or may blossom as I do like to include text in my work too (even if it’s not visible in the final piece). I didn’t find anything specifically but I very much liked this quote from Kerouac from ‘The Big Sur’:
“On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.”
Kate Chappell 