Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen using 14 layers of ink

using 14 layers of ink

30cm x 30cm (image)

she has won many prizes for her prints and has shown her work nationally and internationally

This piece was created in 2006 as part of an ongoing series of cityscape prints

Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen using 14 layers of inkThe fable that inspired my etching is 'The Fir Tree and the Bramble'; Deep in a forest, a fir tree boasted to a bramble 'You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.' Then the Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to cut you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree.' The moral of the story is that renown is