You can find these quirky little anomalies lurking in quiet places all over Fenland. Left over fence posts, gates in the dyke and drain headlands, water control weirs, sluices and slackers and the vast majority of these old items of stock control and water management have long fallen into neglect and disrepair. There is no great amount of animal livestock being kept in fields now because the farming is dominantly arable and on a massive scale with big machinery that needs huge open spaces to function while the water and flood management infrastructure is constantly monitored and managed by computers and not by workers. So, this is the first of a new series of prints featuring some of these curiosities, think of them as sketches and they’ll be kept simple using a maximum of four colours. That’s the plan so far but we all know what happens to carefully laid plans. . .
John Richardson Lino Prints 