Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen To read about Small Pleasures

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it is the ‘small pleasures’ that will carry us through

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using 14 layers of ink

Hilary is President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen To read about Small PleasuresThe fable that inspired my etching is 'The Fir Tree and the Bramble'; Deep in a forest, a fir tree boasted to a bramble 'You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.' Then the Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to cut you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree.' The moral of the story is that renown is