ARCHIVE PRINT SALE

This Sale is in celebration and support of my transition to Chapter Three of my art practice. I’m celebrating by letting go of artwork which has gone before, your decision to purchase an artwork during this Archive Print Sale supports me as an artist while I make new work. Thank you!

Prints only: This sale is for prints only. It is 50% off the 2025 print price, on a selection of prints stored in my lock-up.

Sales end 31st October, 5pm

Terms and Conditions:

Sale ends: 31st October, 5pm, or until stocks last. There are only a few of each print in the sale [the ones already printed and stored in my lock-up]. Once thes are sold, further prints will be at the normal 2025 price.

Print Condition: Some prints may be slightly scuffed at the edges of the paper, due to being stored for a while. These scuffs can be cut off by the framer, and in no way affects the artwork itself. Prints will be signed, titled, overpainted, as usual.

ETA: Prints will be couriered in order of purchase, from 31st October. If you require the print earlier than that, please let me know ASAP and I can try to do that. Note that some prints need to be overpainted by hand, as I usually wait until a print has been purchased before completing it. This takes time, and there’s only one of me, so patience may be required :-) .

Framing: All prints in the Sale are sold unframed. If you’re interested in framing, email me I can let you know pricing and ETA. Please note framing will be at current 2025 price, plus Shipping.

Layby: Layby is not available for the Sale

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PRINT DETAILS

Edition type: Limited edition of 25

Medium: Acrylic paint, silver paint, pencil, digital print on archival Hanemule paper

Sizes: A3, A2, A1, A0 

[NB: 25 prints in total in the edition, so 12xA3, 5xA2, 5xA1, 3xA0, plus 3 artist proofs]

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2025 PRICES

A3 print $499 , A3 framed $822

A2 print $998, A2 framed $1644

A1 print $1980, A1 framed $ 2888

A0 print $3950, A0 framed $5776

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NOTES TO THIS ARTWORK

Text: Somewhere there is rain. But not here. Not right now. Into the garden we go.

The last line in the Philip Larkin poem, The Whitsun Weddings is “somewhere becoming rain”. ⁠. The ‘somewhere there’s rain’ beginning of the poem in this artwork refers to that. My partner first showed me the poem when we were first in love. I forever associate the poem with that beautiful time. That’s why I made an artwork riffing off it.⁠

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So here we are, my partner and I, sitting on a garden bench, holding hands and feeling like rain is very far away, but knowing it’ll come again. Because that’s life. Sunshine and rain in equal measure. ⁠

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When I was a child, I loved Land of the giants. It was a TV series where the main characters were tiny in a land of huge people. I’m referencing that show here, with us being childlike and smaller than a dandelion. I’m signalling the tenderness and delight I feel when I’m with him. I feel so safe with him. Safe enough to show him all that I am, including the child that I was, that I carry with me always. We all carry the child we were deep inside, eh.⁠

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The artwork began horizontal. If you look closely, you’ll see sideways letters. It was a painting in it’s first iteration, then I made this print and the print is way better than the painting, and so the painting is gone and the print remains. Each print in this limited edition of 25 is hand-painted with the gold in the rectangle and triangle of their bodies, and the stalk of the dandelion. The paint flickers as you move past it, kind of like memory does.⁠

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“Into the garden we go” is part of the Wide in bloom collection, 2022.⁠