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$80.00

Lino block print (framed).

10x20.50"

Limited edition 14 of 30.

Jellyfish have such beautiful, fluid, organic lines. This seems to mirror the view of Ernst Haekel, the famed German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, whose book "Art Forms in Nature" filled with lovely 19th century scientific illustrations of biology inspired my original drawing and then carving in linoleum of this creature.

This is an original lino block print of a jellyfish, printed in white, water-based block printing ink on 'unryu teal' Japanese paper. The paper has many visible fibres, which add to the organic feel of the piece and makes each print rather unique. The edition is limited to 30 prints, each of which are produced by hand. The sheets are 18 cm by 40.6 cm (7 inches by 16 inches). The framed piece is 25.4 cm by 52.1 cm (10 inches by 20.5 inches).

Ele Willoughby

$80.00

Lino block print (framed).

10x20.50"

Limited edition 5 of 6.

A group of bullfinches is a bellowing, and this linocut shows a bellowing bellowing, or singing loudly. I am making a series on the weird and wonderful terms of venery - the collective nouns for groups of animals (and other things). Some are evocative, some strange and obscure. This is the third in a series of such prints.

How could I resist a "bellowing" of bullfinches? We don't actually have bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) here in North America, apart from the odd, very lost, Eurasian stray. They do not appear shy. They do like to sing. I listened to their songs and hear triplets and short strings (tuplets) of likely irrational eighth and sixteenth notes. So, I tried to illustrate my bellowing of bullfinches bellowing their songs in this fashion.

This linoleum block printed bullfinches are printed in black ink on Japanese kozo, or mulberry paper with chine collé breasts in pinkish-orange and dun for the males and females respectively. Each print is 14" by 9.25" or 35.6 cm by 23.5 cm in dimension. The framed print is 10" by 20.5" or 25.4 cm by 52 cm.

Ele Willoughby

$50.00

Lino block print (framed).

9.50x12"

Limited edition 1 of 30.

This is a linoleum block print, in a rich, dark, coffee-brown on beige (like creamy coffee) coloured Japanese kozo paper, 8" by 10" paper (20.3 cm by 25.4 cm). The frame itself is 9.5" by 12". The print is my illustration of a coffee mug and how the aroma triggers me to remember how much I depend on coffee. The molecule is caffeine, a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid and psychoactive stimulant, which keeps us coming back for more coffee. The molecule contains carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen atoms, each of which are shown somewhat differently. Now, in fairness, I don't think caffeine is what we smell, but when I smell coffee, I know I'm going to get my caffeine fix.

Ele Willoughby