This item is a mounted, quality commercial REPRODUCTION PRINT of an original linocut design by me, artist-printmaker Alison Pearce. It is NOT an original limited-edition print (those are sold out) but this excellent reproduction is sold here on my website by me, and is also signed on the back of the print by me. The image has been professionally scanned and laser-printed on robust Conqueror Oyster Wove 300 gsm paper. In this way, this popular and attractive design is made available to you at a much lower price than that of the original handprinted items.
I describe the origins of this artwork as follows: 'Mud Flats 2' came about because I came across an image with a silhouetted row of birds, perhaps gulls or waders, standing on estuary mud flats. The image immediately suggested linocut to me.
The original artwork 'Mud Flats 2' is a multi-block linocut print (art created by a human - no AI involved!).
The foreground depicts the row of birds in silhouette and also more birds wheeling about as they come in to land. I have deliberately left some of the 'chatter' on the upper block (ridges of lino that pick up ink and print marks) to suggest the movement of the seagulls in flight.
The background blocks provide a canvas of textures in a paler colour. They depict the watery ridges of the mud flats, more birds in flight and suggest a distant industrial skyline, with its flues and stacks.
So the subject is saying something about nature's resilience in the context of an industrial environment.
The print is sold unframed, for ease and economy of shipping. However, it is despatched in a commercially-manufactured A4 size mount set, which comprises a mitre-cut textured off-white mount, backing board and cellophane bag. So not only is your purchase all ready to present as a gift (if that is your plan with it) but the mount set, together with other robust packaging, protects the print during shipping. There is plenty of margin for framing and the mount set can be discarded, if you have other plans for the print.
Image size: 21cm wide by 12cm high (13cm including handwriting below image) landscape format
Paper size: 27cm wide by 18cm high approximately.
Mount size: A4
