Ruby Ash I
£30.00
Ruby Ash I
Original ink monoprint on card
15cm x15cm on 20cm x20cm white card
This piece is created by placing real leaves from my garden onto a flexible printing plate. The process involves building up layers of ink on the plate and on the leaves themselves. A single print is then taken by pressing a piece of card on top. This monoprint technique is a special printmaking method where the image can only be made once, unlike most other printmaking which allows for multiple originals.
In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was a sacred Ash tree which connected the nine worlds. It grew on an island surrounded by the ocean. It represented life, mortality and connection as its trunk reached up to the heavens and its roots reached all the way down to the Underworld.
The Gaels also revered the ash tree as protective. In fact, three of the five legendary guardian trees of Ireland were ash. They commonly grow beside Irish holy wells and are also seen as a sign of purity.
“We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.”
-Pablo Casals
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