The print shows the author Hilary Mantel, photographed at her home and on the beach at Budleigh Salterton in Devon. The tag set — Seascapes, Animals, Literary — suggests a composition that places the figure within the coastal landscape rather than against a neutral backdrop, with sea, sky, and an animal forming part of the frame. Artz's mokuhanga approach decomposes this layered scene into separate color blocks: one for the figure, others for sea and sky, others again for foreground and any animal forms. [Bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradients are well suited to the soft horizon and to the modulated greys of overcast Devon light, applied with a damp brush before each impression onto [washi](/glossary/washi). The translation of an outdoor portrait into woodblock recalls a long tradition of locating sitters within identifiable places. Within Artz's body of work, a portrait of a novelist whose Wolf Hall trilogy reconstructed Tudor England in granular interior detail is rendered in a medium that itself privileges accumulated layers and patient sequence.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Author Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall/ Cromwell Trilogy. photographed at her home and on the beach in Buckleigh Salterton, Devon, United Kingdom was created by Andrea G. Artz.
Author Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall/ Cromwell Trilogy. photographed at her home and on the beach in Buckleigh Salterton, Devon, United Kingdom depicts seascapes, animals, and literary.
