My Love in her Attyre

soft pink colourway

My Love in her Attyre doth shew her Witt,
It doth so well become her:
For ev'ry Season she hath dressings fitt,
For Winter, Spring and Summer.
No Beautie shee doth misse,
When all her Robes are on:
But Beauties selfe shee is,
When all her Robes are gone. 

Anonymous

My latest limited edition screen-print is based upon the words of an anonymous Elizabethan madrigal that I stumbled upon as a youth, and inspired by Medieval manuscript illumination and C17th stump-work embroidery.

The print features a pair of lovers in playful pursuit, lost in the branches of a fecund forest ripe with fruits, flowers and foliage. The poem floats in a heart-shaped clearing above them surrounded by a host of birds, bugs and other woodland creatures, whilst cupid, bow and arrow in hand,  looks down from on high.

Available in two colourways, a soft pink and a vibrant green, the print is A3 (42 cm high by 30 across - a standard frame-size) and in a strictly limited edition of 30 per colourway. Printed on 300 gsm paper the print can be yours (or your loved one's!) for £75 + P&P and is available for purchase from my Etsy shop and other reputable outlets.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/122517918/my-love-in-her-attyre-screen-print-pink

https://www.etsy.com/listing/122517773/my-love-in-her-attyre-screen-print-green

vibrant green colourway

           

the lover... (detail, soft pink colourway)

...and his beloved (detail, vibrant green colourway)

Cupid looks on (detail, vibrant green colourway)

the poem (detail, soft pink colourway)