For Whom The Bell Tolls

2018 - 2020

Drawing and prints based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

But did thee feel the earth move? Carborundum print on Fabriano paper, 20 x 30 cm, unique edition.

He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass.
— For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Woodcut prints on Shoji paper, 65 x 85 cm, each in an edition of 4.

 

Preparatory oil sketches on watercolour paper

 

"Oh," she said. "I die each time. Do you not die?"


"No. Almost. But did thee feel the earth move?"


"Yes. As I died. Put thy arm around me, please."

Installation shots from George Quiney’s solo show The Earth Moved at the Barn Gallery, Oxford University.