‘ Green Man & Dog Star ‘ 

 

Green Man & Dog Star: prints from stone & wood
Exhibition by James Waller and Nikki Tait
Gallery Asna, Clonakilty: 2-23 November
“Green Man & Dog Star: prints from stone and wood” is a joint exhibition by printmakers Nikki Tait and
James Waller showing in Gallery Asna, Clonakilty through November. The exhibition presents two bodies of
work: Nikki Tait’s hard edged wood engravings and wood cuts, subtitled “From Hedgehogs to Hedgerows,”
and James Waller’s soft edged aquatints, lithographs, mono prints and screen prints, subtitled “Sfumato
(smokiness).”
Through small, highly detailed wood engravings and wood cuts, Nikki Tait observes the natural world
around her, looking objectively and translating lyrically. She notes, in writing about her work, that: “much is
missed by looking inwards, rather than at the external world around us.” She also notes the “transience of
most human effort” through images of abandoned dwellings beings reclaimed by the fields around them.
James Waller’s prints, by contrast reveal a state of inward looking as much as a process of outward
observation. His works, in various media, alternatively gestural and realistic, are threaded by a sense of
smokey, soft edged form. The natural world, mysterious lichen forms and shadow plays inform his shifting
world of images, which at times dovetail his work as a painter, or else stand alone as print.
“Green Man & Dog Star” will open on 2 November 5:30pm, at Gallery Asna, Asna Square, Clonakilty
and will run until 23 November.