The Snail Linocut Print caligo a flight of geese over

a flight of geese over marshlands

This is a handmade Linocut print based on the woodblock print by master of the warrior woodblock Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861

happily this wonderful animal is now much more wide spread and I am very fortunate to live by a river where otters are now a regular visitor

The ink is rich green black

with Hunger Hills woods marching to the horizon

The Snail Linocut Print caligo a flight of geese overHere is my linocut of a beautiful garden snail, meandering across the page on a Sumi e Japanese style calligraphy trail. This is a three plate linocut plate on lovely Japanese Awagami Kitakata Select ivory paper. It is printed upon A3 size paper (297mm x 410mm) with an image are of A4 (210mm x 297mm)