These are the large scale woodcuts in progress.  The images were drawn free hand from memory.  There was no tracing involved.  This is the first panel of the left of the large boat print.  It's 180cm x 1m.

This is the second half of the boat carved and drawn up.

Here it's fully carved and ready to print.

Each block too around 3 weeks to complete from scratch.  So this large boat print took around 6 weeks.

This whole print is 1mx360cm.  This picture doesn't do justice to the size so here's a few more!



The idea behind this piece was portray in simple terms the damaging effects of man-made global warming.  We burn fossil fuels for temporary benefit while damaging our planet simultaneously.  The earth can't sustain this forever.  If we don't change to renewable energy soon we could alter our planet in catastrophic irreversible ways.

To me this is the equivalent of enjoying a bonfire on a boat while using the wood the boat is made from to fuel the fire.  Eventually the boat will sink and we will only have ourselves to blame.

I called this piece "Waves of Self-Destruction".