Orange Garden

Wood engraving and linocut collage on wood.

10 x 12”

Not yet for sale (it’s hanging on my wall at home providing much cheer on grey days!)

By the time I made this collage during the second lockdown I was growing plants specifically for their shape so that I could draw them, engrave them, print them, and add them to the mix to be cut out and stuck down. What started as an idea to be freer in my work became ever more compulsive in its nature. The moth was a broken pressed metal brooch dug up in the garden. I have yet to find a golden hoard...