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Fort Greene Park is a hilly, peaceful and beautiful spot in Brooklyn near my home. Designed by Olmstead and Vaux (who also designed Central Park and Prospect Park), the park is an oasis of green trees and rolling hills where you walk among the trees, feel the breeze on your face, and just relax for a while.

This linocut print depicts the park as seen from the top of the hill overlooking the tennis courts to the south and a field of grass where soccer games are frequently held. The brownstones on Washington Park are seen peeking through the treetops.

The print is part of a hand-pulled edition; I carved the block for this print in 2010 and decided to reprint the edition this year with watercolor additions, remembering how much I loved drawing in the park. After printing the block in black ink, I add color by hand using a watercolor wash for the sky and trees and grass. It is hand printed on Rives printmaking paper. Each print is signed, numbered and dated and shipped flat in cardboard.