There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods
Hard ground and aquatint copper etching with chine chine collé. Printed on 300gsm Hahnemühle paper. Signed, titled and numbered in an edition of 30.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods.
This print is one of a small series of four works focusing on the area in Devon where Agatha Christie had her holiday home, Greenway, on the banks of the river Dart, near Dartmouth and Kingsway. Filled with treasures from her family's collection, the location featured and inspired a number of her books, and she described it as, "the loveliest place in the world".
Each print has a title based on a literary quote about nature, shortened and amended to fit the image and space.
The prints are intended to look like sketches, drawn quickly, on location. The reality is far from that, involving multiple dips in the acid and lots of sugar lift and hard ground layers back in the studio in Bristol.