Annie Musgrove
Progression of Lockdown through the Hedgerow
With lockdown on the horizon I thought it would be an opportunity to teach myself how to make lino cuts. I hadn’t made them since I was at school but I have been printing with Jenny Graham at Dove Studios and at the Double Elephant Print Workshop in Exeter in recent years. I live in a very rural area in the Tone valley and every day walk my dogs down very green lanes. I quickly noticed how early the hedgerow was coming into blossom during lock down. These changes were chronicling the passage of time through the spring and now into the summer.
What began as a three week project of making lino cuts and test prints of plants as they came into blossom became a driving obsession as weeks turned into months through the lockdown. I have now made 21 prints from the fleshy leaved primroses of March through to the dog roses and honeysuckle of June. I am thinking of finishing with 24 prints, ending with the thistle as it blossoms. But maybe the obsession will continue….
Whatever has been going on in our human bubble with concerns about the pandemic, nature has been carrying on regardless with plants growing, blossoming and dying. Change is always evident in the hedgerow, each daily walk brings new surprises.
I only ordered a tube of black ink back in March but the starkness of the prints in black on white is striking and somehow resonates with the starkness of this time. I am starting to make paintings of these lino cuts on the sanded down drawing boards of my cancelled painting workshops. They are white on grey to symbolise hope of new growth in a world of sadness.
(10 June 2020)
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