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' Helen Fay
based on traditional willow pattern china typical of the 19th century (when there were potteries in Ouseburn) and some of the landmarks of the Lower Ouseburn Valley
but something about the multi-layered intricacy and artifice of the poem suggested printmaking rather than painting
producing an edition of 24 copies on Fedrigoni Materica paper that were printed here in Shipley on my SP20
because I cannot bear to thin them out earlier in the growing season
Gawain Staunches the Wound to His Neck typography ' Helen Fay'The Green Knight raises his axe to strike Gawain, but the knight shrinks from the blow. The second strike misses. The third nicks the flesh of his neck, and perceiving his salvation Gawain leaps away and demands that the Green Knight honour their bargain: a blow for a blow. The monstrous figure leans on his axe and, in a good humoured tone, explains that Gawain has been secretly tested and that he has passed with flying colours. His only fault which
