Frome
The book cover for Recetas y Refranes has been completed by Sarah Godsill. It is a five-colour suicide print, sometimes more prosaically known as a reduction print. The block is destroyed in the process if making the print.
The book is a collection of family sayings and recipes. The Coello family were exiled by the Spanish Civil War, they fought on the Republican side, and they kept the spirit of home alive with food and language.
I've been working on a triptych about the amphitheatre in Palmyra; the façade before the massacre, during and after. The message being that horror passes but the building endures. The work is progressing well and I'm engraving as well as I ever have done when I hear on the news that Isis have retaken Palmyra and blown up the bloody amphitheatre!
There is another issue here, one that most of us would feel very uncomfortable about admitting to which is that perhaps, to us, the monuments are more valuable than human life and that iconoclasm is now being classed as a war crime.
