Eric Thake 'The Itchy Owl' - Collected by Ian first nations artist it sprouts into a museum-quality

it sprouts into a museum-quality feat of artistic prowess

The British-born David Aspden came to prominence with hard-edge abstraction and shaped canvasses

Etching and Embossing

Blackman is adroit in the language of feeling

signed 'Mary MacQueen' & dated '78 below image

Eric Thake 'The Itchy Owl' - Collected by Ian first nations artist it sprouts into a museum-qualityEvery 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. The first card Thake sent, The Itchy Owl (1941) is a graphic of an owl. It exemplifies the artists concision and sense of humour with his owl cocked wing suggestive of a scratch. As