ou might not know what a smeuse is; I didn’t, until this summer when I was sent the manuscript for Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book Landmarks. In the book he has prepared a number of glossaries of words which you would struggle to find in a standard dictionary. They are words from dialect, slang and so on, and describe matters loosely pertaining to the land. For instance, an old Essex dialect term for a kestrel is ‘wind-fucker’. An old Sussex word for the gap at the bottom of a hedge made by the regular passage of a small animal is… smeuse.
This print is an adaptation of the linocut work I did for the cover of Landmarks.
Edition of 88 prints
2 colour screen print
Paper size: 530mm x 375mm
Print size: 385mm x 265mm approx.
Printed on 300gsm acid-free archival Somerset satin
