The texts of these charming prints were chosen for their gently uplifting nature. A perfect gift for sending some positive energy, they come ready mounted to fit a 23 x 23cm frame.

The prints feature a pair of quirky whales created from ornamental type details and upside down print block bodies. The prints come with a light cream mount which complements the sumptuous Somerset velvet paper. The text is set and printed by hand in metal type Dorchester and Marina script.

The Whales do not sing

because they have an answer

They sing because

they have a voice

This quote by GREGORY COLBERT features a whale with a wonderfully swishy tail piece and an ornamenta

bracket creates the baleen on his mouth. The whale on this print swims to the right.

The print with the whale swimming to the left makes excellent use of more beautiful ornamental type pieces for the tail and water spout along with a decorative bracket for the mouth. This little whale carries a quote by HERMAN MELVILLE

Dream tonight of Peacock tails

Diamond fields and Spouter Whales

Ills are many, blessings few

but dreams tonight will shelter you

About the Artist

Elizabeth Fraser is an artist printmaker experimenting with the analogue processes of hand set letterpress type and linocut from her Cambridgeshire garden studio. Inspired by the invisible connections and structures that verbal and written language make in our lives she uses colour, pattern and space to create her playful work. Elizabeth also has an interest in using art as a means to explore and engage with science to create greater understanding and appreciation of their shared basis of creative enquiry.