SWE79 arrives in Thirsk
4–25 March 2017 The Society of Wood Engravers 79th Annual Exhibition stops in Thirsk, North Yorkshire for the majority of the month and can be found at: Zillah Bell Gallery Kirkgate Thirsk North Yorkshire YO7 1PQ Private View: Friday 10 March, 6.30–8.30pm Opening Hours Monday–Saturday 10am–1pm & 2–5pm Closed Sundays &…
stormwind buzzards
Storm Doris was passing through. An unlikely epithet branded by the meteorological office onto the low pressure system sweeping across the waistline of Britain, the storm brought high winds and disruption to many. In this part of Hertfordshire though, with the branches and trees of Plashes Wood thrashing below them, a pair…
On the birthing grounds
The chill of a pre-dawn December morning nipped at uncovered faces as our small group padded quietly out of the village. Gentle whispers of snatched conversation and the soft call of a winter robin licked the ears above the deep rhythms of distant breaking waves. Out onto the dunes, muscles finding…
On Snettisham Beach
Snettisham is tucked away on Norfolk’s western shoreline, a giant’s stone’s throw from Kings Lynn – a fold in the country from which mineral rich alluvium pours out into The Wash. It is rightly famed for it’s bird-life, particularly in winter where impossibly large flocks of knots join thousands of other…
SWE 79 at The Bankside Gallery, London
31 January–19 February 2017 The Society of Wood Engravers 79th Annual Exhibition will be visiting London from the end of the month. This year’s special accompanying exhibition will celebrate the work of Peter Lawrence SWE RE. Bankside Gallery 48 Hopton Street London SE1 9JH Telephone: 020 7928 7521 Bankside Gallery website:…
We were here all along – rediscovering the glow-worms at Barwick Ford
One warm sunny evening early last July, the idea of finding a glow-worm came to mind. Realistically it was a long shot. The last time Denise and I had seen a glow-worm had been ten years previously, on a cliff-top near Portscatho, on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall. I did…
From the archives – Into the Storm Surge
From the archives: 8 Dec 2013 – In December 2013 a major storm hit the east coast, coinciding with a visit I had planned to RSPB Snettisham. I left the reserve car park in complete darkness, stars bright as diamonds in the ink black skies above me. The road had been closed…
We were here all along
A signed digital print to launch our new shop. In July 2016, through some fortuitous events, we discovered a long established colony of glow worms in a local set-aside field. For three weeks we visited nightly, photographing and counting them. This digital image, derived from an original linocut, is the result.…
A few print images from through the year
This is a collection of some of the print derived digital images that I have produced this year. All are linocuts that have been cut and hand-printed, then scanned and digitally manipulated to produce the colour images. A more traditional approach would be to add colour through separate printed plates,…
In the shadow of Cheviot
Towards the head of College Valley, skirted by a burn of brown and spuming crystal white water, with the Cheviot massif towering high to it’s east, stands a shepherd’s refuge. Like others dotted across the hill sides and valleys across Northumberland and other wild places, it provides shelter to sheep, shepherd and…