Skipper

Another small linocut based on Butterfly sketches made this summer. A Small Skipper Butterfly.

Small Skipper

8 colour Reduction Linocut

136mm x 80mm

Edition of 20

Another one for the Lepidopterists

Magpie Moth

8 colour reduction linocut

Edition of 19

131mm x 86mm

Over the years I've managed to collect a lot of offcuts of lino. Being too small to use for my normal editions but too big to justify being thrown away I had just kept them in a box until I could think of a use for them. The good weather of the last few months has been very good locally for butterflies so consequently I've spent a lot of the time I've been out of the studio sketching them, thinking that I could use up these small offcuts of lino on a series of Butterfly prints. Although this Magpie Moth is based on a sketch made about 5 years ago at Llanrhystud in Mid-Wales - so not recent and certainly not local.