Three sorts of cutting this summer: A book cover of Eminerva, the Etruscan goddess, for a poetry volume by Anne Rouse made by reduction cutting. (Will be published by Bloodaxe next year). Apart from the image making there was the invisible pleasure of tracking down this goddess in the quiet Etruscan gallery of the British Museum after elbowing my way through the throng.
Cutting on a large scale in a manner more akin to wood engraving. This is an image for Energise Sussex representing community energy generation and forces of nature, forces of community and forces of resilience. For part of my thinking about this image I read Who Owns the Wind by anthropologist Hugh McDermott Hughes about climate justice, social justice and how we enpicture those ideas.
And running Three Ages of River workshop as part of Watershed at Black Shed Gallery, Robertsbridge, East Sussex. It was a meditation on the life journey of a river with Gabrielle Lewry. We explored the geomorphology of the Rother through linocutting and printing within a sung soundscape.
In this workshop I taught participants how to cut and print a lino block in multiple layers. In their printmaking, as in geomorphological processes, they revealed and covered what went before. The lino block was our little square of river-shaped earth. We created as Gabrielle’s voice encircled us with the song of the river.
