Blue Thicket Woodland and Trees Series by Jenny Mason-Gunning

Blue Thicket Woodland and Trees Series is an etching by Jenny Mason-Gunning, created as an exploration of tone, texture and atmosphere within the Shropshire countryside.The composition is simple yet powerful: a dense line of trees gathered along the horizon, their branches tangled and animated, held against an open blue sky. Beneath them, the foreground becomes a field of marks — layered, energetic and alive with the rhythm of the printing process.This work is less about a single moment and more about sensation: the feeling of standing before a hedgerow at dusk, the wind moving through growth, the quiet weight of the land. The blue ink brings an unusual emotional temperature — cool, reflective, almost nocturnal — while the surface remains full of character and movement.Jenny’s printmaking process allows the image to sit somewhere between observation and abstraction, where the landscape becomes pattern, memory and atmosphere.Blue Thicket is a piece that invites stillness, offering a calm but textured presence — a study of nature rendered through line, pressure and layered ink.