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'Beagles in the Snow' Christmas Card

For my 2024 Christmas card I wanted to design a two-sided image based on the famous 'Hunters in the Snow' painting by Brueghel the Elder.


I took the figures from the painting, and a couple of the dogs, and added a few extras from Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century.


The design came together with the addition of a load of beagles, and a very loose and fantastic interpretation of the walk over the hill from Helmsley Castle to Rievaulx Abbey – though neither building was represented as it actually is.

Over several weeks I engraved the design on a block measuring 22 x 11cm, proofed it, and sent it to the printers.


It's now available in my shop, as 


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