Tree Sparrows
By
Peter Driver
2021
2021, woodcut monoprint on vintage wallpaper, 30x40cm
We discovered this vintage wallpaper behind the seventies kitchen units when renovating my son's house. The design transported me to my childhood and I reminisced about the abundant birdlife I used to see around my village, which is now almost all gone. I made four woodcut prints onto remnants of the wallpaper to mark my sense of loss. The four title birds have all sufferered catastrophic declines in their breeding populations in my lifeltime. They are:
Tree Sparrow
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Turtle Dove
Spotted Flycatcher
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