Austen & Turner: An Imagined Conversation

Limited edition prints in collaboration with Harewood House for Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter. Words by Jane Austen and J. M. W. Turner, printed at Thin Ice Press.

The distinctive inked backgrounds using some of the colours most loved and used by J. M. W. Turner. Each is subtly different, making every print one of a kind.

The text for was set by hand using movable type, and printed on one of the Centre's many traditional printing presses.

Two designs available. Both imagine a conversation between Austen and Turner, using quotations from both the writer and the artist to reflect on the relationship between writing and visual art, and the possibilities and constraints of British society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Capturing Beauty

Printed at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in an edition of 15 A4 copies available at £20 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

Married Men

Printed at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in an edition of 15 A4 copies available at £20 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.