28 Mar

Posted at 09:55h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
30.5 x 28cm, offset lithograph printed brown and black on cream paper. The linocut image by Gary Hincks is of three mugs and a (sugar) bowl which has three small boat propellors in it much like flowers might be put in the absence of a vase. The work is inspired by a Ben Nicholson painting - Three Mugs and a Bowl - the same outline of the crockery is used by Hincks but the propellors are not there in the original.
Keilkraft Propellers are toy accessories used in model making so it is plausible that they might be left in a cup as storage in a strange still life but the positioning of the three propeller blades here suggest they are meant to propel the three coffee cups in some way. The coffee cups therefore become boats and the drawing a seascape.

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27 Mar

Posted at 10:05h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
30.5 x 28cm, offset lithograph printed brown and black on cream paper. The linocut image by Gary Hincks is of two mugs each with boat registration numbers on them . The work is inspired by a Ben Nicholson painting - also Two Mugs - the same outline of the crockery is used by Hincks.
Both mugs are steaming from their contents - but in the drawing this makes them a visual parallel to the funnels of steam boats. Hence this is a maritime work and more than just a still life.

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14 Mar

Posted at 09:47h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
15 x 10.6cm, 16pp with card covers and blue printed dust jacket. Six drawings by Hinks illustrate newly created maritime proverbs by Finlay:

"Cross-winds straight wakes" and "Bilges beget rainbows".

The former being a metaphor for criticism causing considered responses or a doubling down on an opinion, the second a reference to the way all bilge water shimmers due to the pollution of oil - the new proverb suggesting good things can come from bad. Finlay's proverbs really should be more commonly used - they are wonderful.
One of only 250 published, VG+

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28 Feb

Posted at 16:26h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
19.2 x 8.4cm, 2pp. A linocut by Gary Hincks. A work that is based on Ben Nicholson's Letters and Numbers - here displaying the sides of fish boxes with the various sizes and numbers and port letterings that identify the catches. Added however are IHF (for Finlay), GH (for Gary Hincks) and WHP (for Wild Hawthorn Press).
There were two variations of this card - one green and the other, like here, brown. VG+.

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24 Feb

Posted at 10:26h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
60 x 27cm linocut in black/brown on white paper. Drawing after Ben Nicholson by Gary Hincks.
The images are a repeating reproduction of a fishing boat box end although the letting at the bottom consists of the initials of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gary Hincks and the Wild Hawthorn Press. Sadly we do not know and cannot find the origin Nicholson print this is based on - many of Finlay's later prints reproduced works inspired by Nicholson. We also believe there was a green print variant of this work. VG.

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20 Feb

Posted at 16:20h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
6 x 2cm, 4pp. One of three cards issued by the press that displays the effects of the "clinker" method of boat building where the edges of hull planks overlap each other. The boat number (which for Finlay is often a poetic construct anyway) is broken up by the irregular sides of the hull. The drawing is by Gary Hincks. VG+.

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23 Dec

Posted at 13:05h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, Christmas 1996
14 x 15.2cm, 4pp card. A drawing by Gary Hincks of a cross section of the midship area of a boat. The parts of the structure are all printed in black except one "carling" which is in red. In shipbuilding, carlings are two pieces of timber laid fore and aft under the deck of a ship, from one beam to another, directly over the keel. Carlings hold the ship together. Other meanings of carlings are less known - an old woman (perhaps a witch) and a type of pea. More than this we do not know - any information about this card would be greatfully received.
This card has a hand-written greeting from Finlay in black ink "love from Dad". VG+

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19 Dec

Posted at 12:39h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 15.2cm, 2pp. A balsa woodcut by Gary Hincks of a "bread-and-butter hull". Such hulls are used for models and they are hulls which are carved with an open top and the deck constructed using conjoined (by glue in a model) lengths of wood such as might be found on a real ship. Finlay's love of boat models has lasted most of his adult life and one can imagine he sees the very name of such constructions to be a wonderful poetic metaphor. VG+.

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13 Oct

Posted at 09:26h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9.5 x 15.2cm, 4pp, folding card with a drawing of a row of beached boats in Hastings by Gary Hincks printed black on brown. There are three one line poems inside the card:

The WEST COUNTRY STONE BARGE bares mortal timbers

the HASTINGS LUGGER steers backwards slowly

The LEIGH BAWLEY sails on silent sails.

Finlay as ever likes a pun or an association with a sound - the Bawley (Bawl) is silent not loud, the Lugger goes backwards because traditionally it was launched stern first and the Stone Barge carries wood not stone. VG+.

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06 Oct

Posted at 22:11h in Exhibition Catalogues

NYC: Nolan / Eckman Gallery, 1996
16.5 x 18.5cm, 28pp. Original printed boards. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue with 7 tipped on colour lithographs - one of a boat and the other 6 of patterned images that seem abstract but are different images of "reef knots" - drawn by Gary Hincks - the ropes that drop from the sails allowing them to be tied up and the area of the sail reduced if required. These images were also released as a print portfolio. The names of the boats that the different sails are taken from are printed opposite every image - the different styles make the prints attractive and each is printed in a different dominant colour. Only 350 such books were printed.

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12 Sep

Posted at 20:13h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
6.5 x 5.4cm, 4pp. A drawing of dwarf beans by Gary Hincks has a two line poem inside:

DWARF BEANS
BR> The stalks, wrists, appear too delicate
for the quarter-moons and leaves.

Finlay compares the shape of the long thin beans to the waxing or waning moon. VG+.

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01 Sep

Posted at 20:07h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.6 x 6.9cm, 4pp, A drawing of a thistledown by Gary Hincks on the front of the card has a poem by Finlay inside:

THISTLEDOWN
BR> the early snows of thistledown

the airy asterisks of thistledown
the clotted cream of thistledown
the distant peaks of thistledown

Four different one line visual poems by Finlay all use thistledown as their essential metaphor. Thistledown is white and fluffy which is somewhat strange given the astringency of the rest of the thistle. VG+.

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