Where Seven Streams Fall

Finally finished the platework on the new mezzotint and after two days editioning the plate I now have a stack of 20 impressions dried between blotting paper.

Where Seven Streams Fall

Mezzotint

200mm x 300mm

Edition of 20

This is Lumb Falls in Crimsworth Dene, a small valley which runs down off the moor to join the Calder Valley at Hebden Bridge. About 10 miles as the crow flies up the valley from where I am writing this. The bridge in the background (a worthy subject in it's own right) carries the old Packhorse Route from Burnley to Halifax across the beck.

Just before the First World War a group of local men sat on the rocks between the two waterfalls and posed for a photograph. Many years later the poet Ted Hughes came across the photo and wrote a poem called Six Young Men, a line from the poem gave me the idea for the title. The poem can be read in full here

The print is available from my on-line shop here