Here is the print that I started back in November, now called Soho Snow, and strangely topical at the moment….

I’m just getting started on a new linocut today. It’s of one of my favourite parts of Soho.
Walkers Court is a narrow alley connecting Berwick Street Market with Brewer Street and it’s lined with the sort of seedy establishments you’d expect in that neighbourhood, with Raymonds Revue Bar at one end and a ‘book’ shop at the other….
This will be the third time I’ve used Walkers Court in a print. Here is one from a couple of years ago, called Soho Sunrise, looking through the alley from the Brewer Street end.

Here is the finished print. It’s called We Never Close, as it features the Windmill Theatre in London’s Soho – that was their famous slogan during the Blitz in the Second World War.

Had I realised how difficult this subject would be, I doubt if I’d have even started it.
I think it’s because there are three separate areas within the picture to tackle – inside the room where the viewer is sitting, outside in the street, and then inside the empty shop opposite – and the light needed to read properly too.
It was very difficult to get enough variation between the three parts – oh, well, it’s done now…