Descent & Surrender - Limited Edition of 10 Print

This print is in a Variable Edition of 10. It is hand embellished with Derwent colour pencils. Printed and embellished to order. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil on the back of the print sent with a certificate of authenticity. Sold unframed. Image size: 40x40cm. Paper size: 43x43cm. Full colour, archival pigment fine art Giclée print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper. This giclée print on paper is aligned with the ancient Celtic festival of Lughnasadh which each year falls on or about 21st September (northern hemisphere)/21st March (southern hemisphere). It began as a pencil drawing that was then scanned into a computer and digitally manipulated. I hand draw on top of each print and therefore no two prints are exactly the same. A maximum of 10 prints will be printed using archive quality inks and paper. At Mabon, day and night are equal in length; dusk, darkness, dawn and lightness are held in balance. The sun is in descent; surrendering its position, for now. Darkness, poised to push upwards, brings a return inwards, to the mysteries of the soul. The lightness shimmers, readying its passage. We sit on the border between summer and winter, enjoying still the warmth of the sun and at the same time anticipating a return to darker days. It is a time when we consciously recognise the plentitude of vegetation, colour and liveliness within the external world, and also acknowledge its ending. The intuitive clarity of the spring equinox gives way to a clarity that can be expressed. Articulating consciously that which we have learned through the darkness of winter, the greening of spring and the abundance of summer, we prepare once more to turn inwards.