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Fine artist based in London but on a country lane in my head. https://linktr.ee/kitboyd
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Eynsford. Reduction linocut. Edition of 14. On show in my solo show throughout March at Store 104 in Rochester with Francis Iles Gallery. I'll be there 3-6 on Saturday 1st so do drop in if you can. All welcome.

Francis Iles Gallery are putting on a solo show upstairs at Store 104 on Rochester High Street, featuring my train poster linocuts for Kent railway stations on the Darent Valley line. PV 3-6 on Saturday 1st March. It runs for 1 month. All welcome.

Well my Monday has started smoothly. I got Wordle in 1 this morning. Hope this means my luck is in for the week... #Wordle

Breathe Magazine. Issue 71 is out today and has my Greenwich Park linocut on the cover

The Coast Walker. Hand coloured etching. A new version made last week. See another hand coloured one at Fresh London this week with Francis Iles Galleries. Free tickets in my bio

Studio window view after the wild wind and rain...

Early morning moon

Today's sunset near my studio beside the Thames Barrier in London

The Sacred Grove. Hand coloured etching from the edition of 60. This is going to be at Fresh London at Alexandra Palace with Francis Iles Galleries. Free tickets through their website. francis-iles.com/pages/art-fa...

The Book of Love. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 75. Available from my website.

End of day from the studio desk...

The end of 2024 is here and here is my most familiar view of the year - right outside my studio window. The Thames Barrier - a reduction linocut I made in October.

The swineherd, 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12566

Another World. Hand coloured etching and aquatint. Titled after the Antony and the Johnsons song.

The Thames Barrier from my studio window yesterday evening.

XMAS MARKET. This Saturday I'll be at the new studios of Arthub at The Mornington Centre in New Cross London with my linocuts, etchings and cards 11-5. Free entry. Celebrating 25 years of Arthub!

The Wanderer. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 40.

The Revelation. Ink on paper with line etching. Made for When Palmer met Blake last month at Adam's Gallery in Reigate. I reworked this yesterday as I felt it was too bright. #samuelpalmer #williamblake

Otford. Linocut. Made for Otford Station and now up on the platform. My linktree in profile has links to my website where you can buy tge original prints, and to the More Sevenoaks site where you can buy the 6 posters in different sizes.

The Tryst. Ink on board. 2024. Just added to my website. Link in bio

Eynsford. Reduction Linocut. Edition of 14. Commission for the railway station in Kent. Currently up at the station and outside Sevenoaks and Swanley stations. #railway #railwayposter #train #art

Sevenoaks. Linocut. Edition of 75. This is the train station poster commissioned by the Darent Valley Community Rail Patnership. Up at the station and on hoardings outside with my 5 other posters. Also outside Swanley station.

New 2025 calendar just out through @rathergoodart.bsky.social featuring 12 of my linocuts and etchings. Order here: www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/kit-...

I put up the double glazing on my studio window yesterday. It's reflecting my bookshelf in the view out over The Thames Barrier.

A Wider View

Icelandic singer Björk has just created a haunting A.I. sound installation for the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 'Nature Manifesto" includes the sounds of extinct and endangered animals

Self portrait as a green man. Under the Ivy. Under Deptford Bridge. Entertaining myself while waiting forever for a 177 bus yesterday...

Cast Adrift (in Blue). Linocut. This was originally made for a Printmakers Council show on the theme of journeys. I imagined John Minton's sleeping figure from Time Was Away (1948) being carried away on the tide... A different version got into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2020.

Pentland Hills from Kingsknowe,Winter 1947 Edwin George Lucas

The Book of Love. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 75.

The Man Who Planted Trees. Linocut. Edition of 75. Made for the cover of the book by Jean Giono with wood engravings by Harry Brockway. Penguin Random House Vintage edition 2022.

The Thames Barrier. Reduction linocut. Edition of 22. This is the view out of my studio window. I included Banksy's rhino which he painted round the corner just before I started cutting it. I sold one of these at Greenwich Printmakers Gallery today so very happy about that!

Morning Mr Magpie, how are you today? It's very autumnal here in London...