Due to popular demand I have run another edition of this print. The print itself is 10 x 8 inches which includes a white boarder. It is sized to fit into a classic 10 x 8 frame, Giclee print, unframed, on Hahnemühle Cotton Rag paper . Since the first edition I worked on the colour so that it more closely resembles the original painting.
This is an archival print on cotton rag paper, printed at Inspirational Arts in Dublin 8.
I wrote the text below while working on the original painting:
A fox observes the Milky Way on a cold Solstice night. To look up at the band of light called the Milky Way on a dark night is humbling and awe-inspiring. We can only see a few thousand stars with the naked eye but we know that there are more than one hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. There are probably one hundred billion galaxies each containing one hundred billion stars. The Milky Way term emerged in ancient times to describe the band of light and is now the name of our galaxy. Our galaxy is one hundred thousand lightyears across, shaped like a disc and we travel inside it at 220 kilometers per second. Old stars create supernovas and explode sending huge amounts of energy out into the universe. Earth and everything on it, including us, is made from particles that came from these explosions and from the original big bang. We are made of stardust and it's incredible to think about how we are connected we are to our galaxy, even if we are just a tiny part of it.