beech

Beech trees are really the only deciduous trees around here that keep many of their leaves throughout the winter, frail, crunchy and nearly transparent they may be. Like everything in nature, there are reasons for this. One is that keeping leaves protects a tree from cold winter winds, and also from animals like deer who eat the tender, cigar-shaped buds in late winter when food is scarce. In pockets of our woods dominated by beech trees (which you can easily identify by their smooth, elephant-skin bark) these leaves pop in the otherwise dreary sepia-toned landscape and always look to me like they’re putting up a fight-- and winning.

“Beeches” is a reduction woodcut printed on mulberry paper measuring 9x12” . Limited run of 36. Due to the nature of the block printing process, colors and printing will vary slightly in each print.