Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Next in my Canadian 🇨🇦 province linocuts is Nova Scotia, with its provincial bird, the Osprey and its flower, the mayflower. The block was inked ‘à la poupée’ (with different colours, green, pinks, yellow and gray-brown, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.</p><p>The mayflower (Epigaea repens) is also known as trailing arbutus has been a symbol of the province since🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mapart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/NovaScotia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NovaScotia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mayflower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mayflower</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/osprey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osprey</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>