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(27 Mar 2009) |
Herman’s inspiration for this work is well described in his own words:
It must have been ten or more years ago that we began to spend summer weeks in the fishing village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast, halfway between Aldeburgh and Southwold. The spell of that great sweep of shingle under its dome of East Anglian skies draws one back irresistibly, and there I spent hours on the beach drawing boats and the men.
It was there that began my fascination with sea gulls, the aura of something near mythical that they brought to the scene.
Back in my London studio, as I worked on the drawings in mixed media there, over the years, I developed a concept of an abstract bird.
The line of text under each bird grew out of wider, random reflection and was in no way intended as an illustration of the image.
Gradually I could see a continuity in the body of the work.
Specification
In 1999 the hand-printing and production of the lithographs for Song of the Migrant Bird was supervised by the master printer and lithographer Stanley Jones at the Curwen Press. The edition was limited to 50 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, and printed on Somerset Mould Made paper.
£375 each
including frame, vat and uk delivery |
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