Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen it is the ‘small pleasures’

it is the ‘small pleasures’ that will carry us through

she has won many prizes for her prints and has shown her work nationally and internationally

with a population that has declined by 95% since the 1980s

Hilary is President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

Japan - for residency and workshop - and from the Scottish Arts Council – for research and development

Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen it is the ‘small pleasures’The fable that inspired my etching is 'The Fir Tree and the Bramble'; Deep in a forest, a fir tree boasted to a bramble 'You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.' Then the Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to cut you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree.' The moral of the story is that renown is