Haikus by Frances Pelly

Caithness flagstones      

‘Raised-work lettering is a particular feature of Scottish letter-carving, as our sunlight doesn’t always have the intensity to cast sharp shadows. Although I’m influenced by the seventeenth-century lettering found in St. Magnus Cathedral in Orkney, on these stones I’ve followed Rudolf Koch’s ‘Neuland’ letterform, as its simplicity works well with the poetic form. The haikus are about Spring – the small, precious signs and sounds after ‘the long dark’.’