Peach Blossom Pair
Unmounted: 21 x 28cm
Mounted: 29 x 36cm
You might wonder at the title of this print - “Peach Blossom Pair”... imagine my delight in discovering there is such a thing as a peach blossom moth - Thyatira batis! This one-off print also features my first bird - a wren -Troglodytes troglodytes ( along and ugly name for such a small and pretty bird!), as well as the pair of moths, all added with watercolour. The plant used for this print is the perennial hedge bindweed - Calystegia sepium.
When you buy one of my prints, you are buying a one-of-a-kind original. There is only one print in the edition - no reproductions are made.
I use the Gelli plate method to get the very fine detail, printing directly from the plants themselves. I forage my plants locally and sustainably - from verges, hedgerows and my own garden (and sometimes a friend’s).
Usually, I use oil based, archival inks that have good colour fastness and are tolerant to light. Occasionally I use water based inks and these, although also archival, do not like getting wet. (Although no artwork likes getting wet!) If I have used water based inks, I spray the print lightly with a fixative to help preserve it.
The bugs, butterflies and other creatures in my prints are all hand painted, by me, after printing - either using watercolour, gouache or acrylics.
Unmounted: 21 x 28cm
Mounted: 29 x 36cm
You might wonder at the title of this print - “Peach Blossom Pair”... imagine my delight in discovering there is such a thing as a peach blossom moth - Thyatira batis! This one-off print also features my first bird - a wren -Troglodytes troglodytes ( along and ugly name for such a small and pretty bird!), as well as the pair of moths, all added with watercolour. The plant used for this print is the perennial hedge bindweed - Calystegia sepium.
When you buy one of my prints, you are buying a one-of-a-kind original. There is only one print in the edition - no reproductions are made.
I use the Gelli plate method to get the very fine detail, printing directly from the plants themselves. I forage my plants locally and sustainably - from verges, hedgerows and my own garden (and sometimes a friend’s).
Usually, I use oil based, archival inks that have good colour fastness and are tolerant to light. Occasionally I use water based inks and these, although also archival, do not like getting wet. (Although no artwork likes getting wet!) If I have used water based inks, I spray the print lightly with a fixative to help preserve it.
The bugs, butterflies and other creatures in my prints are all hand painted, by me, after printing - either using watercolour, gouache or acrylics.
Unmounted: 21 x 28cm
Mounted: 29 x 36cm
You might wonder at the title of this print - “Peach Blossom Pair”... imagine my delight in discovering there is such a thing as a peach blossom moth - Thyatira batis! This one-off print also features my first bird - a wren -Troglodytes troglodytes ( along and ugly name for such a small and pretty bird!), as well as the pair of moths, all added with watercolour. The plant used for this print is the perennial hedge bindweed - Calystegia sepium.
When you buy one of my prints, you are buying a one-of-a-kind original. There is only one print in the edition - no reproductions are made.
I use the Gelli plate method to get the very fine detail, printing directly from the plants themselves. I forage my plants locally and sustainably - from verges, hedgerows and my own garden (and sometimes a friend’s).
Usually, I use oil based, archival inks that have good colour fastness and are tolerant to light. Occasionally I use water based inks and these, although also archival, do not like getting wet. (Although no artwork likes getting wet!) If I have used water based inks, I spray the print lightly with a fixative to help preserve it.
The bugs, butterflies and other creatures in my prints are all hand painted, by me, after printing - either using watercolour, gouache or acrylics.