Inspired by the beautiful tulips and hives in our garden. I sat in our garden sketching this having planted masses of tulips last year - less than half surviving the visiting deer and mice.
After sketching this we went on holiday , I was itching to get back to start the linocut. All the tulips in the garden were over by the time we returned but I had my sketches a reference.
This is an original, hand printed, reduction linocut - so one piece of lino is used to create the whole image, printing a colour , cutting away and then overprinting - so at the end not much lino is left - so it cannot be reused - once the edition is decided on that is it.
