Artwork description:

Original, handmade wood engraving print. A herring gull swallows an eel on the River Thames, London, at low tide. I captured this while working by the river during the summer, drawing this view from the South Bank - with Southwark Bridge and one pier of the Millennium Bridge in the background.

Wood engraving is a tradional form of fine art printmaking. The artist uses specialised tools to create the image in relief (and reverse) on the end grain of a block of hardwood - usually boxwood - by removing the 'white' parts of the image. This technique is painstaking and highly technical, and allows for the creation of exquisitely detailed works. Rebecca's wood engravings have been exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, with the Society of Wood Engravers, and in galleries across the world from Japan to the USA.

Materials used:

Black in on White Zerkall paper

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