New Year 2023

Happy New Year!

I make New Year cards most years to send to friends and family. In recent years they have been prints: woodcuts or linocuts. This year it was a collage. My card this year is made of marbled paper and a kinetic band of people. The people are printed from carved rubber stamps. The concept was to show “through it all together”: people going under and over and through.

Here is a short video to show how the centre band moves:

Here are the rubber stamps which made the people and the dogs. I cut them from a large pencil eraser.

Here are some snaps of work in progress.

The marbled paper is from a pack of offcuts from the Wyvern Bindery. There are several different designs. The white card is…