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Tom Kristensen

Cormorant
copyright Tom Kristensen, 2005

Tom Kristensen, born 1962, is a young artist from Australia who works in the tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking. On this page, he writes about his latest print from the series "36 Views of Green Island ".

Here is the original text written by Tom Kristensen. Text and images are copyright protected and may not be used or distributed for other than private use without the prior consignment of the author/artist.

36 Views of Green Island

"These 36 views are presented in the Sosaku Hanga tradition: self-carved and hand printed, using Japanese tools, Japanese mulberry washi and traditional pigment colours. Each print is made from 4 to 6 blocks and printed in an edition of 25 copies."

Cormorant - No. 14

"The cormorant is an excellent swimmer, chasing fish underwater in dives lasting as long as a minute. It's feathers must be dried before the bird can take to the air again. In the sea it sits below the waterline with only the head uptilted and neck visible. It will suddenly bob down and propel itself under the water with large webbed feet, while the wings are held closed. The hooked beak is useful for snaring fish, eels and crustaceans. Sometime later the bird will resurface, often a great distance away. The cormorant has been used in China and Japan to catch and retrieve fish, the neck banded to prevent the bird from swallowing the fish. Great Cormorants sometimes fish in formations, driving shoals of fish along while flapping out of the water, leapfrogging each other to dive onto the fish."

"Most of the year the birds are solitary and are seen fishing alone. In the breeding season they will gather in noisy colonies of several thousand. The nest is a bulky platform of sticks built in a low tree or on the ground. Both parents build the nest, incubate the eggs and raise the clutch of three or four young."

Tom Kristensen
June 2005

More about Tom Kristensen

The artist was first discovered by Eric van den Ing, co-author of a classic ukiyo-e book "Beauty and Violence" and owner of Saru Gallery. After Eric van den Ing had placed Tom's woodblock prints on his online gallery, a few days later a collector had bought the whole set. Mr. van den Ing seems to have a "magic hand" for new artists. He was the first to introduce Paul Binnie in 2000 to a larger online community of friends of Japanese prints.

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