About this artwork

Original Reductive Woodcut from a series of 8 non-identical prints. I have treated each piece as an individual artwork and printed with different colours and a different number of cuttings with each one. I used a bit of driftwood I picked up and put in my rucksack on a painting trip to Poole Harbour. I made the woodcut using a pen and ink drawing I did down on the beach at Alum Chine, Bournemouth on a snowy day earlier this year, (you can see Studland and Old Harry Rocks in the background). I was drawing away when suddenly about a million gulls, with a crow and a few pigeons decended, so I stopped mid-drawing to draw a lady with a dog and a carrier bag who the birds clearly knew as their human provider. Once I had done that, I went back and finished my original drawing. I am putting this one into a forthcoming exhibition. The size is that of the coloured part of the image, not the paper.