engraving
The art of printmaking in all its glorious complexity
Holly E.J. Black highlights the differences between the feathery delicacy of an etching, the bold forms of a linocut and the carved sinews of an ancient woodblock
Communing with a great artist
Great books make genres jump. It happened with W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, which looked like a travelogue, claimed…
The many faces of William ‘Slasher’ Blake
‘Imagination is my world.’ So wrote William Blake. His was a world of ‘historical inventions’. Nelson and Lucifer, Pitt and…
Wings of desire
Maria Sibylla Merian was a game old bird of entrepreneurial bent, with an overwhelming obsession with insects. Born in Frankfurt…
