Jan Jenkins

The Light Seekers 8

Lightseekers is an optimistic piece, filled with the hope and promise that light in the dark offers us. Dragonfly symbolizes living life to the fullest through change brought about from self realization, the opening of ones eyes resulting in maturity and the understanding of the deeper meaning of life. They are also a sign of happiness, speed and purity in motion. Maple brings us the assurance of abundance in life, love, health and prosperity as she is the tree of offering with her unwavering generosity, balance, promise and practicality. Lightseekers is a mixed media varied edition linocut print. It was created by first transferring layers and patterns of varying acrylic colour onto paper using a gelliplate. The outline of leaves and dragonflies was then applied by inking the linocut design I created and hand carved, hand-printing this overtop the acrylic layers with a roll press, adding additional custom inking and a final coat of acrylic medium. This original hand-pulled print is matted to 11x14" and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.