The Wildlife Pond - wood engraving

The Wildlife Pond is an original wood engraving, printed on 145gsm white Zerkall paper with oil-based black ink. It features a newt, newt nymph, dragonfly nymph, snail, toad, and tadpoles - can you spot them all?

Signed on the front. This is a limited edition of 25 prints. Please note this print is unmounted and unframed.

Paper size: 14 x 14cm

Wood engraving is a type of relief print, meaning the areas intended to stay white are carefull carved out with specialist tools known as 'gravers'. These are designed especially for wood engraving and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Wood engraving lends itself to fine detailed work and as a result the prints tend to be smaller than some other print mediums.

This engraving is created on Holly, which is considered a premium wood for engraving due the dense nature of the fibres. The wooden block is first prepared by smoothing the end grain surface and dyeing it a darker colour so that the engraved lines can be seen more clearly.

This print started life as a pencil drawing and was then transferred to the prepared block. This provided a rough guide to follow during the engraving stage.

As prints are made individually by hand please expect slight variation in detail and colour density, which makes every print unique.