Fraoch
A Night of Islands, a suite of 10 colour etchings with text.
Signed.
Edition of 40. Signed, numbered and titled verso.
Inspired by a traditional Gaelic poem from the sixteenth century found in the ‘Book of the Dean of Lismore’ in which Fraoch is sent to retrieve a branch from a magical rowan tree. Fraoch swims to an isolated island guarded by a sea monster but when he uproots the rowan tree the monster awakes and tears off Fraoch’s arm, he is mortally wounded and eventually dies in the arms of his lover, Findabair. The border is created from imprints of rowan leaves and an old snakeskin handbag to suggest the scales of the monster.
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A Night of Islands, a suite of 10 colour etchings with text.
Signed.
Edition of 40. Signed, numbered and titled verso.
Inspired by a traditional Gaelic poem from the sixteenth century found in the ‘Book of the Dean of Lismore’ in which Fraoch is sent to retrieve a branch from a magical rowan tree. Fraoch swims to an isolated island guarded by a sea monster but when he uproots the rowan tree the monster awakes and tears off Fraoch’s arm, he is mortally wounded and eventually dies in the arms of his lover, Findabair. The border is created from imprints of rowan leaves and an old snakeskin handbag to suggest the scales of the monster.
