The Forest Keeper

The Mini Cuts are an ongoing series of small linocuts that began during a particularly challenging summer, for all sorts of emotional and circumstantial reasons. I wanted to make something that felt small and manageable, without too much expectation attached to it, and to simply let my imagination wander.

From that came Forest Keeper, a curious little creature who seems perfectly at home amongst the trees. Part bird, part something entirely imagined, I think of him as quietly watching over his patch of forest, observing everything that passes through.

The creatures also appear in a series of small etchings. In the Mini Cuts they inhabit their own imagined worlds, while in the etchings everything else falls away and the creatures appear alone.

Each print is signed and individually hand-pulled on my Ironbridge etching press, Yumi.

Edition of 75
Printed on Saunders Waterford paper
Paper size 15cm x 15cm