Eric Thake 'What a Cow' - Collected by Julie bright & vivid geological and socio-political issues

geological and socio-political issues

he carves out their character

'Blue Portrait' 2008

'The Conversation'

traditions

Eric Thake 'What a Cow' - Collected by Julie bright & vivid geological and socio-political issuesEvery year, modernist Eric Thake would send his friends a hand made Christmas card. Original linocut prints, these cards have since become canonical, each observing a changing nation through one its most distinct voices. There are notes of humour, critique and poeticism. Dated 1945, What a Cow is a graphic mirage. Their shadows run down the page, recalling a trees spray of limbs or an open hand. Represented across numerous public collections,