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It has been an extremely chilly and frosty start to the year in London. I don’t remember it ever going down to -5C here before. I’ve been trying to capture some of the beautiful frost, lining all the vegetation in the mornings…

Getting up close you can really see the ice crystals forming over the different textures.

The garden is bare at this time of year, but the frost does make it seem sort of magical.

I hope everyone’s year is starting out well!

I’ve just come back from Brussels where I visited my friend Aude and spent the weekend working in her studio on a Mokuhanga Sisters project.

All 9 of us in the group worked in our own timezones across 6 countries over the weekend to carve a snake/moon image and print an editon of 25 postcard-sized prints.

I started by sketching a variety of snakes, then decided to create a snake and moon vase, working out if it should be a red vase on white, or a white vase on red.

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