£400.00
200
400
£200.00 - £400.00
Unavailable
per item
SKU:
M A R Y
This large hardback book is the first release from my new imprint Awen Press. The book contains 22 acrylic engravings of women and plants, reflecting my deep interest and dependence on Mother Nature and the effect we have on her.
Our planet is in decline. In a few decades, we have broken a system it took her 4.5 billion years to make, a devastating fact we have learnt to accommodate with a blind eye. All wisdom comes from hard experience, and so these images attempt to show this honestly, to lift the blindfold - my own as much as anyone else’s. But I also believe in love and hope and seek to remind the reader that the healing is within the earth herself.
I hope to offer more than just a mirror or a shocking image. I learnt so much from working in nature reserves, and a key lesson was witnessing the power and certainty of natural regeneration. We don’t have to do anything to recover her, other than to stop hurting her. She can recover on her own. If we can but hold our hope and reduce our engagement with the current culture of arrogant consumption and assumption, we can return to a more harmonious partnership as a part of her system, not apart from it.
This book is 26.5 x 37cm, printed by hand on an 1846 Albion press on Liber Charta, from John Purcell Paper of London. The engravings are hand carved and mostly printed in two colours.
The title is set in 72pt Michaelangelo and the text is 14pt Bembo metal type.
The edition is of 50 copies all in slipcases, plus 10 sets of sheets available for hand binding.
I hope to offer more than just a mirror or a shocking image. I learnt so much from working in nature reserves, and a key lesson was witnessing the power and certainty of natural regeneration. We don’t have to do anything to recover her, other than to stop hurting her. She can recover on her own. If we can but hold our hope and reduce our engagement with the current culture of arrogant consumption and assumption, we can return to a more harmonious partnership as a part of her system, not apart from it.
This book is 26.5 x 37cm, printed by hand on an 1846 Albion press on Liber Charta, from John Purcell Paper of London. The engravings are hand carved and mostly printed in two colours.
The title is set in 72pt Michaelangelo and the text is 14pt Bembo metal type.
The edition is of 50 copies all in slipcases, plus 10 sets of sheets available for hand binding.