Down the by-ways of Albion

 

Down the by-ways of Albion

Mezzotint

150mm x 200mm

Edition of 50

Finally finished editioning this latest Mezzotint. On the face of it a nostalgic image of a long gone rural idyll. My title deliberately implies this. Albion being an old name for Britain dating back to the classical Greek writers and revived by the romantic poets such as William Blake. However, the image is contemporary, or at least was a couple of years ago  when I came across it deep in the countryside of North Norfolk.

For the more technical minded, the plate was rocked using a 4 inch wide 100 lines per inch Lyons Rocker in 24 directions and printed on 250gsm Somerset Satin with a Blue Black ink across the top half and a Brown Shade Black ink across the bottom half from Hawthorn Printmakers.