Skip to content
Reflected Ground website logo v2 transparent — Sarah-Alice Miles printmaker Canterbury NZ
  • HOME
  • SARAH-ALICE MILES
  • Statement
  • LEARNING
  • PRACTICE
  • ESSAYS
  • GALLERY
  • CONTACT

Tag: woodcut

How Linocut Captures a Sense of Place: Printmaking, Belonging, and the Canterbury Plains

Close-up of wood block being carved by hand — Reflected Ground printmaking practice, Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand

Linocut printmaking captures a sense of place not through description, but through the act of carving it. An essay on how slow, hand-made mark-making becomes a way of learning the Canterbury landscape — and what that means for belonging.

The Hare as a Symbol of Belonging: A Printmaker’s Essay

woodcut print of a hare sitting in grass, black and white relief printmaking study for linocut design

The hare in Canterbury was introduced in the nineteenth century — familiar with the terrain, never wholly native to it. An essay on belonging, the hare as symbol, and why it keeps appearing in the Reflected Ground prints.

The Watchful One: Staying, Vigilance, and What It Means to Belong

Hare Linocut Print in Payne’s Grey – Reflected Ground Project

The hare in the Reflected Ground series does not flee — it stays. This print and essay explore vigilance as a form of belonging: what it means to remain, exposed, in a landscape that does not yet fully know you.

  • How to buy a print

Loading Comments...