A Ramson Field 2025

The image treats a drift of wild garlic as a continuous, almost textile surface. Across a tall, scroll-like format, matte greens stack in interlocking blocks while off-white star flowers hover above the leaves like punctuation. Vertical grass blades break the field just enough to suggest depth, yet the overall effect stays deliberately planar—an echo of Shin-hanga woodblock practice, where atmosphere is carried by carefully registered colour rather than modelling. Brushy edge bleed and the slight mis-alignment between tones keep the composition tactile, reminding the viewer of the carved block even though this impression is a contemporary giclée.​

By choosing ramsons—Allium ursinum, a pungent herb that carpets Gower’s damp deciduous woods each spring—the artist folds local botany and folklore into that Japanese idiom. Wild garlic is both an indicator of ancient woodland and a prized forager’s crop; in medieval Wales it was listed among the healing plants used by the 13th-century Physicians of Myddfai, Carmarthenshire’s legendary herbal dynasty.​ The print, then, carries more than seasonal colour: it records an ecosystem, a scent, and a strand of vernacular medicine, translating them into the quiet, ordered rhythms of a modern woodblock landscape.