Greeting Cards (3 pack) - Botanical Hummingbird Cyanotype

Pack of three greeting cards featuring artwork titled 'Web of Life' by artist / printmaker Keeley Eastwood.

The original artwork was a handmade cyanotype embellished with gold ink.

A6 size greeting cards fit comfortably into the brown paper envelopes provided.

Blank inside.

Artist / artwork information included in small, neat text on back.

Printed at a local printing house in Keeley’s hometown.

Card stock used is 'carbon neutral' and 'FSC' certified ('FSC' certification ensures that products come from sustainably managed forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits.)

Also available as a single and other multipack greeting cards as well as an A4 print (see artist's other Felt listings.)

All copyright / reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.


Symbols and associations behind 'Web of Life':
The symbiotic relationship we share with nature and all life-forms; hope; the feminine; new life; family (the love that binds; the blood and life-force that connects and flows; the burdens that weigh; emotional ties - positive and otherwise); healing; love (and the enduring power of love); maternal; becoming; the fragile and ephemeral nature of life; spiritual; soul; the authentic truth; the connectedness of everything (including between the living and those who have passed); mythical; other-worldliness;; the value of myth and story and shared wisdom (in whatever form these might take - and how these interweave through and connect our lives, families and cultures - past, present and future); heritage / legacy / tradition / our connectedness to our past and our future (physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually); creativity / ideas forming and connecting and growing and reproducing.

More about the original artwork:
This cyanotype was made by applying a light-sensitive 'iron salt' solution to watercolour paper, allowing it to dry and then arranging a selection of found natural objects on the paper's surface, before placing it in the sunshine to allow the 'magic' to happen. Any surface of the paper exposed to the sunlight was transformed into the beautiful shade of 'blue' you see here, hence the name "cyan-o-type". Cyanotype is one of the oldest forms of the photographic printing process.