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Monotype print in blue ink showing a driftwood tree washed up on a shoreline in coastal Maine

Monotype print in blue ink on rag paper, 6 x 8.75 inches (15.24 x 22.33 cm)

Along the coast of Maine, one will often encounter pieces of driftwood washed ashore. Occasionally one finds entire enormous trees, scoured of bark and the wood bleached silvery white by the saltwater and sun, left stranded upon the rocks by the receding tide. This image was inspired by one such late tree, which I saw glowing ghostly against the dark shore at twilight.

Detail enlargement from a monotype print showing a driftwood tree washed upon the Maine shoreline

Detail enlargement from middle of print