{"id":922,"date":"2025-08-19T20:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/?p=922"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:51:37","slug":"lino-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Lino summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three sorts of cutting this summer:<strong> A book cover of Eminerva<\/strong>, the Etruscan goddess, for a poetry volume by <a href=\"https:\/\/annerouse.com\/biography\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/annerouse.com\/biography\/\">Anne Rouse<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Eminerva-smaller.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Eminerva-smaller.jpg?resize=510%2C554&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Eminerva-smaller.jpg?w=510&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Eminerva-smaller.jpg?resize=276%2C300&amp;ssl=1 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cutting on a large scale in a manner more akin to wood engraving. This is an image for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energisesussexcoast.co.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.energisesussexcoast.co.uk\/\">Energise Sussex<\/a><\/strong> 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 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2658-who-owns-the-wind?srsltid=AfmBOooh6J8gU5vbg30lpXZJGrZGz9LvTQolZ2mzJsTkjZmr3NJInSwr\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2658-who-owns-the-wind?srsltid=AfmBOooh6J8gU5vbg30lpXZJGrZGz9LvTQolZ2mzJsTkjZmr3NJInSwr\">Who Owns the Wind<\/a><\/em> by anthropologist Hugh McDermott Hughes about climate justice, social justice and how we  enpicture those ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?resize=584%2C290&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?resize=1024%2C508&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?resize=300%2C149&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?resize=768%2C381&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?resize=1536%2C762&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?resize=500%2C248&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?w=2016&amp;ssl=1 2016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/energise-sussex-being-cut.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And running <strong>Three Ages of River<\/strong> workshop as part of Watershed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackshedgallery.org.uk\/\">Black Shed Gallery<\/a>, Robertsbridge, East Sussex. It was a meditation on the life journey of a river with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spiritsonghealing\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spiritsonghealing\/\">Gabrielle Lewry<\/a>. We explored the geomorphology of the Rother through linocutting and printing within a sung soundscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s voice encircled us with the song of the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"587\" data-id=\"925\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?resize=584%2C587&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?resize=1018%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1018w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?resize=768%2C773&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?w=1272&amp;ssl=1 1272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4781.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"587\" data-id=\"926\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?resize=584%2C587&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?resize=1018%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1018w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?resize=768%2C773&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?w=1272&amp;ssl=1 1272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4782.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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