One of the projects I started during my MA involves 100 points along a 15 mile line from Pelstone Cross Quarry up the hill from my house in Otley to Coldstones Quarry near Greenhow Hill. I cycled the route stopping every 0.15 of a mile (I think!) to give me 100 points along the line. At each point I took a colour photograph of the boundary (a wall, hedge, fence) and recorded the what3Wwords App location I was standing. I’ve slowly been turning each of those photographs into small linocuts.

The two images here, are part of that project. Both consist of three screenprint layers (which includes the text) and one linocut layer. The title of each piece is the what3words location and the text comes from a book called ‘Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village’ by Marit Kapla, a fantastic oral history of a village in Sweden that is in decline. The text and images are paired randomly.

Both works are printed on Awagami Washi paper ‘Kozo Natural Select’ which has fantastic textures and is surprisingly strong given its light 46gsm weight. These works are my submission for the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition which I hope they will be exhibited in in Japan in the autumn.