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A.D Willow House Prints
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I’m a printmaker from the North West UK specialising in linocut, and wood engraving. Interested in folklore, ancient history and landscape
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‘Jackdaw Ash’ - my new wood engraving inspired by a trip to Long Meg - is now available on my print shop - and etsy. On offer at willowhouseprints.uk/shop for the rest of the week too.
76mm x 76mm engraving on pear wood. Limited to 20 prints. #woodengraving #reliefprint #stonecircles #printmaking
Photo of a black and white eood engraved print showing a large, thick tree trunk with hanging, leafy boughs. Strong sunlight casts shadows across the trunk. A wood engraving tool sits atop the print.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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‘Jackdaw Ash’ wood engraving on pear wood 76mm x 76mm - glad to say this is now going to edition
Photograph of a small 7cm wood engraving print of an old tree with a canopy of leafy boughs in strong sunlight. branches cast shadows across the trunk. A wood engraving tool sits atop the print
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Just dispatched a number of these bespoke bookplates to a friend, carved into engravers’ plastic and hand printed. This was my first bookplate / ex libris, hopefully the first of many
photo of a labelled envelope with a number of identical black and white ‘ex libris’ bookplates featuring a wading bird design
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Great to be working in wood again - this wood engraving in progress shows one of the big, old (Ash?) trees found at the centre of Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle in Cumbria #woodengraving #reliefprint #stonecircles
Photo of a lemonwood block about 120mm high with an emerging design of an old tree trunk in a landscape. Tools used in cutting the design are nearby Photo of a lemonwood block about 120mm high with an emerging design of an old tree trunk in a landscape. Tools used in cutting the design are nearby. A coin is shown for scale.
September 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I had a great time at Sudley House Handmade last Saturday - sharing the wonderful library with some very talented makers. Made some megalithic sales, big and small, and very happy with my stall looking the best it has ever been. Always room for improvement of course 😁
August 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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For Standing Stone Sunday, a tiny, quick and dirty wood engraving of Long Meg, and a few of her daughters. Block in-progress and final print shown #AltText
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#StandingStoneSunday #printmaking #reliefPrintmaking #StoneCircles
#Cumbria
photograph of a woodblock partially engraved with a design of a standing stone in a landscape. the block sits atop an engraver’s sandbag on an leather-topped surface with embossed gold detail. Engraving tools can be seen in the top right of the view photograph of a wood engraved print on white paper, showing a standing stone in a landscape of trees and hills. in the distance three more standing stones can be seen. The print sits atop a notebook with a textured red paper cover
July 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Editioning day among the megaliths
Photo of multiple black ink prints on white and tinted papers hanging from a drying rack. The prints depict megaliths in landscapes under dramatic skies, and have phrases beneath them. One reads ‘The Cove.’, the other ‘Count the stones as ‘round you walk / listen to Meg and she will talk’. photo of an inked linocut block on a print bed in front of the press rollers. An ink brayer sits in the foreground. close up photo of an inked linocut block showing the words ‘the cove’ in reverse
July 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Pulling the first print in the edition for my new ‘Listen to Meg’ linocut.
Here printed on handmade Khadi paper - given how translucent it is, I think I’ll back the 16X23” print area with a lighter paper to lift the clouds and soften some of the differences in ink thickness. Happy with it though
June 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Prepping ‘Meg for transfer to a lino block
May 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Long Meg Megalithic linocut print planning in progress
photo of a black and sketch of a standing stone with cup and ring rock art upon it. a line of text is partially in shot, and the words ‘the stones as’ can be seen. A pen sits on top of the paper
May 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This block has been completed since last year but am only now getting to an edition. Printing it today on some gorgeous Fabriano Roserpina, great surface texture but takes some work to print.

Avebury Cove, linocut 2024.
March 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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For #StandingStoneSunday a small sketch of a big stone - one of the Devil’s Arrows. I’ve been meaning to try a linocut or engraving of one of these for a long time, so this brings me a little closer to that.

Rendered in 1hr on Essdee Scraperboard
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Photo of a small scraperboard artwork showing a very tall, tapering standing stone among established trees and shrubs. A fence, gate and short grass appear in the foreground with a smaller stone in front, bearing a circular mark. Light streams in through the trees behind. The image is executed in white lines on black
February 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Fifteen-minute Silbury Hill sketch.
Essdee scraperboard
3” x 2”
photo of scrperboard and a tool, the board has a white on black view of a fence, trees and grasses and in the distance a large earth mound
February 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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SuperScraperLamBanana
photo of a yellow ceramic ‘superlambanana’ sculpture with a small scraperboard artwork showing the same in black and white. A friendship band in blue cotton sits around the lamb’s neck
February 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Another scraperboard exercise, this time inspired by wood engraver Agnes Miller Parker

#scraperboard #woodengraving #landscapeart
Photo of a hand over a wooden surface holding a sharp tool with a red handle and a small card with a black abs white design upon it. The design shows a landscape with trees and hills, a brooding sky and a path stretching off into the distance to a small structure. A lone figure in a large coat and top hat strides towards it
February 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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More scraperboard studies
Photo of a hand holding a red scraper tool and a scraperboard. The board has an engraved image in white lines on black showing a vintage razor sat on a dark surface in strong light
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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First experiments with scraperboard - I bought this to to help with designs for wood engraving, but it is a satisfying medium in itself
January 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Another of my wood engravings, and another stone circle - this is Derbyshire’s Nine Stones Close with the Robin Hood’s Stride rock formation on the horizon
Photograph of a wood-engraving tool over a print in black ink on a table. The print shows four standing stones in a grassy landscape under a sky with some clouds. A natural rock formation is silhouetted against the sky
January 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The rewarding mess of some good hours of cutting and printing
Silvertone photo of a messy print studio table with rollers, cutters, linocut waste, registration tabs and a pencil strewn across it
January 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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New here so by way of introduction, my name’s Anthony and I make prints inspired by Britain’s ancient landscape and history. Here’s one of my wood engravings, showing the Cove at Avebury
wood engraving in black ink on white paper showing two large standing stones in a grassy landscape, with a distant stone and henge bank beyond. In the far distance downland can be seen under a dramatic sky
January 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM