Artwork description:

As a South African living in London next to the Walthamstow Wetlands, I thought it might be fun to bring another South African and place her in the Wetlands - a hyena. I have been told that they can be found in the Johannesburg and use the streams to move around the city....I imagined that happening here in East London.

This wood engraving was created on a barge moored next to Hackney Wick and the Olympic Park, under the tutelage of the wonderful Chris Daunt. The carving is done on lemonwood and printed by hand onto Japanese gampi paper which is stuck onto 100% cotton paper using Nori (Japanese rice glue). The hyena is printed with a black ink with a hint of gold.
Each print is numbered and has the studio chopmark in the right hand corner.

Materials used:

Lemonwood wood engraving printed on Japanese gampi and adhered onto Somerset Cotton paper

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