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Aquatint Etched Greetings Cards

A range of individually-printed Greetings Cards,
left blank for your own message.

The greetings cards available from TSC Art are individually printed from etched plates made by the artist, Jean Bowker. The designs used include traditional Celtic motifs from the 6th to the 10th centuries.

The cards are ca. 10 cms by 15 cms (ca. 4" x 6") and are left blank inside for your personal greeting. They are sold in packs of six of one design at £9.99 (nine pounds ninety-nine pence Sterling) per pack, including shipping.

Jean will be happy to give you further information on her wide range of etchings,
watercolours and fine oil paintings - contact her directly.
 

Ardargh
Celtic Spiral motif - the border comes from the Ardargh Chalice - a beautiful example of exquisite metal work in gold, silver and bronze dating from no later than the 8th century found by chance in 1868 in a field in Ireland on the site of an ancient rath or fortress.

 

Durrow

The central motif of this card is taken from the Book of Durrow, an 8th century illuminated manuscript now lodged in Trinity College, Dublin and said to be written by a scribe named Columba, not the saint.

 

Glammis


The central Celtic knotwork panel is found carved on the Glammis Stone among others and is of the Pictish School, creators of the world's finest examples of interlacing patterns, symbols of continuity.

 

Lindisfarne
The Celtic knotwork in the border of this card is known as the dirk handle twist of the type used widely by the ancient Celtic Picts who held sway in Scotland from Caithness in the north to the Forth in the south from pre-Christian times to their eventual disapperance, subsumed or submerged by the Scots by the 8th or 9th centuries.

 

Pictish
The Celtic spiral border and central panel of this card are examples of the culmination of centuries of artistic endeavour by many cultures; the circle being the first primitive beginnings of artistic expression. The spiral found full artistic growth in Britain and Ireland in ornaments, jewellery, stone carving and illuminated books.

 

Tree of Life

This card is the artist's adaption of an ancient idea found in many cultures including the Egyptians, Cretians, Byzantians to the Celts who created images of the Tree of Life growing from a pot both on stone and in the 8th century Book of Kells.


Jean will be happy to give you further information on her wide range of etchings,
watercolours and fine oil paintings - contact her directly.

jean@tscart.co.uk

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