The scene
One small empty rowing boat rests on glassy water as dawn breaks after a storm, with the old words this too shall pass written across the morning. It is a print for a hard week, a hard year, or a friend who needs to hear it.
The style
A Japanese shin-hanga woodblock print: still water, soft graded colour and the first pale light after bad weather.
The inspiration
The look comes from Hiroshi Yoshida's Sailing Boats: Morning (1926), for its medium and its light. The boat and the scene are my own. The saying is an old proverb.
How it's made
I design each picture and refine it until it feels right, and I set the words myself. It's a print of a digital artwork in the style of a Japanese woodblock print, not a hand-painted original. Each one carries my printed "Chapter & Scene" signature in the corner.