Poster for Chorus Group

May 1991

This one was a 'never again!' project. This is a big print - a poster for a local chorus group, and measures 54 x 40 centimetres. It's about 12 or thirteen impressions, and I had to make upwards of 100 copies for distribution around the town.

At this point, I have no memory of how this all came about; perhaps one of the ladies in the choir was a collector of my work, and I couldn't 'refuse' her request ... Somebody from the group passed me an image of the woman and the seashell (I have no idea where she got it), and I arranged it into a posterish design, along with the required lettering (done in both positive and negative).

In retrospect, I can't believe that I actually agreed to do this job (volunteer ...), as it was an insane amount of work. Trying to print that wide sky area on heavy paper - not the soft washi that I normally use for woodblock prints - is very hard labour indeed, and I very nearly broke down and couldn't do it. But I had promised them that I would make their posters, so I did ...

But as I said ... never again ...