The pastoral fantasy fascinates people everywhere, especially those who are caught in the rush of city life. Every nation keeps its own version of the pastoral fantasy close to its heart, even as its people continue to crowd into cities. French painters depicted an Arcadia based on classical models, and English landscape designers set about re-building it. Gertrude Jekyll created the Victorian English country garden, and even placed one in France, near Dieppe, Bois de Moutiers. Monet built his own floral dreamscape at Giverny and painted endless variations on it. In Italy, an Umbrian hill town looking out on olive groves symbolizes another pastoral ideal. The Japanese cherry-blossom reverie celebrates the rural virtues of harmony, peace, plenty, and renewal. In Nepal, cascading waves of grain in terraced fields mark the landscape; a water buffalo stares at passersby as if they are long-lost relatives.
140. Les Andelys. 18 x 25 cm (7 x 10") photogravure etching, Cool black & violet etching inks on Ganpi colléd to Lana Gravure paper (2000); birthplace of French painter Poussin, whose landscapes provided the model for English country gardens
146. Artichokes. 14 x 20 cm (6 x 8") photogravure etching, Warm black & violet etching inks on Lana Gravure paper (2001); found in the market of Montreuil, chacun à son gôut
148. Giverny. 18 x 24 cm (7 x 10") photogravure etching, Cool black etching ink on Magnani paper (2001); the Monet water garden in living black-and-white
142. First Blush. 25 x 19 cm (10 x 8") photogravure etching, Laque de Garance and black etching inks viscosity-printed* on Fabriano paper (2001)
180. Looking Up ・兼六園。 19 x 25 cm (8 x 10") photogravure etching, Cool black etching ink on Fabriano paper (2004); cherry blossoms in Kenroku-Koen, Kanazawa, Japan
184. Carried Away. 17 x 13 cm (7 x 5") photogravure etching, Cool black etching ink on Rives BFK paper (2004); cherry blossoms at Yoshino-san, Japan
236. Grainwaves. 20 x 26 cm (8 x 10") photogravure etching, warm black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo paper (2007); a cascade of terraced fields, Nepal
234. Here's Lookin' at You ・ 水牛。 13 x 16 cm (5 x 6") photogravure etching, Burnt umber & warm sepia etching inks on Lana Gravure paper (2007); water buffalo, Nepal
158. Welcome Back・ お帰り。 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10") photogravure etching, warm black etching ink on Ganpi tan paper (2002); the Japanese pastoral ideal, rice fields lined with persimmon trees
175. Spello ・ スペッロ。 26 x 18 cm (10 x 7") photogravure etching, Burnt umber etching ink on Ganpi colléd to Rives BFK paper (2003); olive groves visible from Spello, a town in Umbria, Italy near Mt Subasio and Assisi
141. Bois de Moutiers. 18 x 25 cm (7 x 10") photogravure etching, cool black etching ink on Lana Gravure paper (2001); the only Jekyll-Lutens garden in France
239. Aglow. 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5") photogravure etching, black etching ink on Fabriano Tiepolo paper (2008); radiant white mountain-azaleas, Tanzawa, Japan
Series: Temples ・ 寺; Dreamscapes ・ 夢; Seascapes ・ 海; Furusato ・ ふるさと; Pathways ・ 道; Mongolia ・ ﾓﾝｺﾞﾙ; Acts & Scenes ・ 町; Unseen ・ 見残す; New Prints ・ 新
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