High summer and the Splinter wood engraving group is back in the beautiful Arts and Crafts, James Maclaren designed Molteno Hall as part of the annual Fortingall Art exhibition. After last year's animal alphabet we were slightly less ambitious with our calendar, 12 images instead of 26. But we've gone a little bigger to 7 x 7 cm for each month. It might not sound big but with such concentrated mark making each block feels like a substantial piece of work. We're still to print all the blocks, there's some last minute scratching to do, but it should be a great showpiece for the six entirely different styles of the six of us in the Splinter group. My months were June and December, inspired by a Picasso lino of Bacchanalian revels and a Ravilious wood engraving of Saturnalia. I have naked ladies for June, dancing with midsummer madness and, more decorously, men in a midwinter Saturnalian scene for December, no Christmas in sight.
We have an entry on the website:
http://www.fortingallart.co.uk/artists_m_z.html
And the exhibition runs from Saturday 28th July to Sunday 5th August 2012.
