Beached Whale letterpress and a herbal created of

and a herbal created of pressed flowers

45cm x 45cm (image size)

not being able to see our families

producing an edition of 24 copies on Fedrigoni Materica paper that were printed here in Shipley on my SP20

'  Helen Fay

Beached Whale letterpress and a herbal created ofIn September 2021 a whale was washed up at the end of Stvarfjrur fjord. I completed seven one month art residencies in Iceland, and this was the fourth. Although I had previously found small pieces of whale bone on that beach, and later on Achill Island on Irelands west coast, this was the only time I have ever seen a dead whale close up. In the course of the following week the carcass was washed back out to sea by the tides. The collagraph is a