ANTIPHON
Inspired by an illustration from a medieval manuscript about the life of St Cuthbert, this print is rendered in a simple ultramarine blue on lavender colorplan paper from G.F. Smith.
Sea travel was incredibly important in Early England and Ireland. Coastal communities, especially along England’s east coast, were better connected to each other and even other communities in Ireland and Scandinavia than they were to other areas of England further inland.
The colour ultramarine (literally ‘across the sea’) references the great distances natural pigments such as lapis lazuli had to travel.