£850.00
Mezzotint engraving 40cm x 40cm
Edition of 25 hand printed on Arches Moulin du Gué paper
26 in stock
“This morning truly a ‘strange otherness’ – a Leopard moth. Fresh…almost damp. Emerging into the brief hour of cool-ness before the heat, after two or even three winters as a larva deep in the wood of a tree – likely the Bramley at the bottom of the garden. He will not feed for however long he has wings to fly. ‘Common’ the book says, but I see only one – perhaps.”
Extract from forthcoming book “Birded & eyed” to be published June 2026
As we gradually climb out of winter, the blackbirds are still feasting on the hawthorn and crab apples outside the studio. With their extraordinary clear-eyed gaze, territorial squabbles, panicky evening calls and sharp outline they are, for me, a perennial subject and constant source of wonder and distraction.
There are Just 4 of these little mezzotints remaining from an edition of 20
