Kit Boyd

It’s not uncommon that you’ll see a figure in Kit Boyd’s poetic linocut prints, but people are never the main subjects. In fact, the artist is specifically drawn to the way that the landscape – treelines, rolling hills and the expansive sky that presides over it all – dwarfs the human figure. If there’s one feeling to take away from Boyd’s work, it might be a newfound appreciation of just how small we are in relation to the universe around us.

The artwork featured in this collaboration displays the view from Greenwich Park’s One Tree Hill, a short walk from the artist’s studio, looking towards the Royal Observatory; a scene originally inspired by a visit to the park on a warm February evening. The image has since taken on a life of its own, with Kit creating a number of alternative versions of the same scene, the colour of the sky and the position of the sun and moon suggesting different times of day and year. For this collaboration, he has produced a suite of hand-coloured editions, each one unique, that demonstrate the multitude of potential tones and feelings contained within a single landscape.