The Frome Alphabet - Original prints by Steven Jenkins

FCN - What inspired your work?

Steven - I had just finished a commissioned A-Z of St Ives and it seemed silly not to have a go at a similar print of Frome.

Some of the letters were not decided until the very last minute and out of the 28 cuts, ten of them were worked in the last 24 hours before putting it up in the Frome Wholefoods window and I had to print them by hand on one of the hottest days... x of course was the real devil and I cheated by using a sign for Badcox - at least it had an x in it...

It is available for sale from my studio at the Black Swan and also in the shop, tho' it can also be seen in 'Sitting Room' at Lewis Gray Estate Agents and in the window of Frome Wholefoods. If you can't guess all the letters see Steven for the crib sheet

Every print is worked entirely by hand, the colour mixed fresh for each print using a mix of colours from a petrol blue to slate grey. The intention was to suggest the industrial history and a suggestion of Woad from the town's textile history. It is an edition of 50 in portrait format and there will be a similar run in landscape format.

FCN comment: If you can't guess all the letters see Steven for the crib sheet or if you have new ideas for X