Mark Anstee limited edition print

Stonehenge grand tour souvenir

Following his year long residency at Stonehenge, renowned artist Mark Anstee has created a souvenir for fellow grand tourists. Stonehenge Portal is a limited edition print from his silverpoint drawing of an accidental trilithon.

The original drawing was made at Stonehenge between March and July 2013. It took 132 hours to complete.

Title: Stonehenge Portal
Limited edition 150 (+15 artist proofs)
Print size 190mm x 190mm
Mount size 305mm x 305mm
Box size 335mm x 335mm
Digital print on 310gsm Hahnemühle German Etching Paper with light-fast archival quality inks.

A certificate of authenticity issued by the printer is included. The edition is strictly limited to just 150. The mount is a 2.6mm conservation mount board in antique white. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist, and the artist?s personal monogram is stamped on the print and its accompaniments.

Price £150 + p&p (Signed for and insured shipping)

You can follow Mark's Stonehenge Grand Tour with hundreds of beatuful photos at www.markanstee.com/blog

Background

In 2007 Mark Anstee was invited to be an Artist-in-Residence on the Stonehenge Riverside Project, a huge and ambitious archaeological investigation of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. For the artist this was the beginning of an extended exploration of the area, its monuments, the landscapes, the wildlife, and the activities of the people who live and operate around the site.

In 2008 he returned with the organization Artists in Archaeology to further develop creative responses and, in 2010, he was made a Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence with the Department of Archaeology at The University of Manchester to continue this work. In 2011 he was made Honorary Research Fellow with the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University, and in 2012, tired of all the traveling to and fro, rented a house with his wife and long term collaborator Gabi a few miles south of Stonehenge to facilitate a year?s long study of the stones.

The couple visited Stonehenge for the year between Summer Solstices 2012-2013 and made over 130 separate visits across the seasons, Mark making onsite drawings of the monument and Gabi writing a blog in the form of a tourist journal.

The very last drawing made on site was a silverpoint study of an 'accidental trilithon', a lintel across two upright sarsens in the outer ring of the stone circle. It was drawn between March and July 2013 taking 132 hours to complete.

In December 2013, the Anstees were invited to give a talk to the fellows at the Society of Antiquaries, London, where print no. 1 of the limited edition is now held.

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