New linocut – Winchelsea Beach

New linocut – Winchelsea Beach

Time to get started on my Winchelsea Beach linocut. Here is the process…. In my previous blog Winchelsea Beach – surprising South Coast hideaway I described my excitement at finally discovering the delights of Winchelsea Beach – a coastal village just down...
Winchelsea Beach – surprising South Coast hideaway

Winchelsea Beach – surprising South Coast hideaway

Winchelsea Beach is a small village on England’s south coast in East Sussex – about seven miles east of Hastings. Wild plants at Winchelsea Beach It is a sort of ground floor offshoot of the beautiful hilltop village of Winchelsea, which I have often...
Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic: part three

Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic: part three

As discussed previously – Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic: part two – I have planned a new A4 size colour linocut featuring wild garlic and a wood mouse. This will be the first of a prospective series of linocuts celebrating the gorgeous spring wild flowers I...

Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic: part two

So I have a sketch to work from for my prospective new linocut Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic, which will be the first in a series of linocuts celebrating spring wild flowers. You can read the first part of this blog here. Choosing the linocut technique So how to do the...

Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic – starting a new linocut

The idea Down here in East Sussex, I do very much appreciate the beauties of spring. In particular the amazing wild flowers that appear between March and late May. My plan is to create a short series of linocuts celebrating these wild flowers – possibly with...
Inspirational spring flowers

Inspirational spring flowers

I very much enjoy watching the sequence of wild flowers unfolding in spring. Now that I’m out of London I see them on a daily basis, instead of making a special expedition. The snowdrops are first, of course. Snowdrops at Southease Church Even now I see them...