Description
Birthday Beetle Sun Card, printed in Bendigo Australia, on Italian Magnani Etrusca paper with matching envelope.
133 x 133mm
Coming from family line of letterpress printmakers, I have taken inspiration from a collection of 19th century metal printing plates that my brother, Brendan, found in a stall at Camden Market, London in the 1990s. The images of beetles and bartenders have a timeless appeal. Letterpress printing is greatly constrained by scale, equipment, inks and time, so for this range of cards I am employing modern printing processes.
See Artist/Printmaker Brendan O’Brien https://bowengalleries.nz/609-2/ and https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/blog/behind-the-scenes/2012/07/fernbank-studio
