(another day in paradise)

Jeff, I thought that you might be interested in a new series of linocuts I am working on. These are the first three of the series of six and are all taken from images gathered and recorded in sketchbooks that I compiled while at art school in Newcastle in the mid-sixties.

(light side of the moon)

Sadly the pits have gone now, just memories, like the prints. The waste tips have been levelled and turned into housing estates or country parks. The lucky ones get a concrete block over the shaft with a little plate on it saying what was there. The linocuts are very different to the maps in ‘Caught by the River – a collection of words on water’ but enjoy them anyway.

all the best, John

(sunset, rising sun)