Winter Comes

I have been wanting to make some more hand-made artist books for a while, but commitments to making prints for open studios and an exhibition for next year, has meant they have had to take a back seat!

My latest monotype prints continue to have a moody, atmospheric feel to them, which I love. Many have focussed on themes of light in the landscape and have additional hand drawn trees as their final layer.

The two processes of hand-made books and printmaking compliment each other so beautifully. I never throw away prints which don't make the grade, preferring to keep them to cut up later for book covers.

I love being absorbed in the ideas I have, especially when the overlapping print and book processes collide with my creative writing! 

I have just been inspired to write a poem about winter and this, I feel, needs to be made into a book soon.....!

Winter Comes.

One of those still days

where the earth in respite, 

rests its bones

and the loss of leaf is a reprieve

for trees

who sigh their last breath into 

breathing space.

And the wind's intermission,

like time holding it's breath,

listens to birds without song

who watch

as the muted drizzle

rolls a veil over the year.

Clare Rogers 2021