Ocelot Books' January window is something I've been waiting to do for ages; a bit of Monty Python and the Holy Grail-type woodcut illustration. I have loved mediaeval illumination for ages, and since I started visiting Germany I also came to love the woodcuts of the era, especially ones from the reformation, where heretics are sitting in the Devil's mouth as he squats over a pile of indulgences. The art of the 15th and 16th centuries has got so much in it to reward the eye, with all sorts of cheeky little details. So, given a whole window to paint, I went for a sort of tribute to the Gutenberg printing press. Unfortunately, I've got to take it down tomorrow to make way for the next display, but I enjoyed making it, and all of the people who stared through/at the window when I was making it seemed to like it too.
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