🌋 The Folding Volcano Has Arrived
Life, eruptions, creases and the some other thing I probably have yet to learn
Some things don’t turn out the way you hoped.
Prints. Plans. People. Life.
Over the past year, I’ve been learning (sometimes reluctantly) how to live inside the folds—those creases that appear in our lives when things don’t go to plan. When the paper doesn’t lie flat anymore.
During a trip to Tenerife, while looking after my mum—between her crazy-golf obsessions, walks, and our shared excitement watching lightning and waiting for her in animal parks—I began sketching Mount Teide. It was my quiet moment, a way of grounding myself as life felt increasingly uncertain.
When I finally carved and pulled the image months later in my Oxford studio, two deep creases marked the paper. Enough to ruin it —or so I thought at first.
But those creases mirrored my life: the unexpected diagnosis, the private griefs, the quiet, unfixable things.
And suddenly, I didn’t want to erase them.
Mount Teide—Spain’s highest peak—was formed by eruptions and earthquakes, and yet today it’s tranquil, magnificent.
This piece holds that energy: a reminder to embrace the cracks and creases in life. Not to hide them, or cut around them, but to fold them in and see what they become.
Introducing The Folding Volcano on Etsy
A hand-carved, hand-pulled linocut print made with love, mess, and a bit of volcanic magic. The creases in the print? They are part of its story. A reminder that we are all shaped by what we survive.
This is a Limited Edition of 20, each print signed and numbered in pencil. No two are quite the same—each has its own unique layer of ink, movement, and (perhaps) a fold or two.
🖋️ Bonus Flash Fiction Story: As with all my work, I include a small flash fiction story with each print—this one inspired by Mount Teide and the journey of making art inside the mess. Choose a framed print, and your story will arrive bottled for an extra bit of magic.