New Year print

December 1988

Somebody was too busy to spend time on a New Year card? Sure looks like it ... You can't get much more minimal than this one: grab a knife and chop a few small areas out of a plank ...

So after nearly eight years of work trying to find a way to become a printmaker, this is where I had got to - with a print no better than the first attempts.

But 'all was not lost'; on my carving table was the key block for the design of Tenchi Tenno that I had been working on 'on and off' during the past year, and it was nearly ready for some test printing ...