wyllie O hagan

Artist signed Giclee Fine Art print on Hahnemuhle 310gsm paper.
The work is sold as a set of eight prints on paper in a folio.

1. artist Denise Wyllie
2. image size 25 x 90 cms
   5 x 3.5 ins
3. paper size A4
   210 x 297 mm

These prints were inspired by Denise Wyllie's contact and experience of Russia, at the beginning of glasnost 1993, taken from sketchbooks, paintings, photographs and objects.

1. Prints 1 to 4 Top Row, left to right:
2. Historical Document: Exiles Tin Mug
3. Syjatozero, Sacred Lake
4. Fihmonovo Chickens
5. Karelian driftwood boat

1. Prints 5 to 8 2nd Row, left to right:
2. Madonna Palm
3. Glove (Cross)
4. Soviet Tree (Lenin)
5. Art Kontact

Print 1 Historical Document, Exiles Tin Mug, top row, left — The image, grew from Wyllie's quest to find a historical document from the communist era, whilst working in Russia.

The print was informed by my friends Marsha and Sergei's discovery of a prisoner's mug they found on a desolate island in Karelia. This bleak island, bordering with Finland, had been used by Stalin as camp for dissidents. The mug is a tin can with a scrap of wire around it forming a handle.
Marsha said "This is your historical document."