Woodcut print
Image size: Varies.
Paper size: The same as the image size. This print has no margins.
Frame size: 30x30" and 16.25x16.25" 
Edition size: 52
Number of artist’s proofs: 0
Printed: 2013. Coloured in 2023.
Paper: Japanese (Shoji Natural)
Ink: Oil-based (Vanson Rubber Base Black)
Block: The image was carved in cherry veneer plywood.
 
Note: The 24x24" and the 14x14" prints are also available framed, for $670 and $390. Local pick up only. Please contact me if you are interested.
 
This image is a repeating pattern (wallpaper) and was originally printed on sheets roughly 4x6 feet. At the time, I only coloured one of the sheets.  In 2023 I cut them into smaller squares and began colouring them. The block was carved and printed at Open Studio in Toronto, where I was working under the Don Philips scholarship.
 
My wallpaper pattern includes various imagery that I associate with the forest in Nova Scotia where I grew up. It’s a beautiful, mysterious, and also sometimes spooky place. It’s crowded, tangled, and claustrophobic. It’s a place prone to thoughts of fairy tales. But for many, it’s also a place of work. Less so now, since the pulp mills have closed, but when I was growing up, my father and most of my male relatives worked in the woods, logging.
 
Ten years later, I can’t quite remember why I was so keen on making a wallpaper pattern. But what I love about it now is the play between the domestic formalism of the pattern with the wild chaos of its subject matter.