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A painted raft of bound logs rests on a night riverbank while footprints lead up to a figure in a rust coat walking away. The words read: It carried you across. You can set it down.

After the Crossing

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A layered aubergine paper sculpture with a tied cream parcel, a creased mustard note and an open teal envelope. Cut-paper letters above read: Leave room for tomorrow.

Room for Tomorrow

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A figure in a teal jacket braces on a grassy hill, holding a taut kite string, with a folded blanket nearby. The words read: Tend the line. The wind is not yours to choose.

Where Effort Belongs

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A felted figure sits with feet tucked to one side, looking at an orange bead as they thread it onto a cord, with mismatched older beads trailing behind to the left. Stitched words read: One day at a time. Thread this one.

One Day at a Time

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

An oil painting of a person in a mustard cardigan holding a cup of tea at a sunlit kitchen table beside a potted plant. Brushed words read: Drink the tea while it's warm.

While It's Warm

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A linocut seen from above shows two friends' hands passing bread across a patterned table with olives, a jug and cups. Carved letters read: Bread, a friend, an unhurried hour.

An Unhurried Table

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A clay diorama of a rainy street corner, where a person in a yellow jumper holds a door for a neighbour carrying shopping. A painted shop sign reads: Wish them well. Then hold the door.

Hold the Door

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A risograph print of a swimmer in a coral cap floating on their back in a golden-hour lido, seen at water level. Yellow lettering reads: You don't have to earn your place.

Held by the Water

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A woodblock-style print of a storm-flattened garden at dawn, where a person in a red raincoat kneels and ties a bent tomato vine to a new stake. Carved cream letters in the sky read: This happened. What can I do now?

After the Storm

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A fresco-style painting of an arched sandstone footbridge at dusk, where a mason rests a hand on one stone while another builder coils rope. Letters chiselled into the parapet read: Name your part. Name theirs too.

Many Hands, One Bridge

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

An oil pastel drawing of two friends at a night train table, one talking and one leaning in to listen, a phone face-down between them. Orange letters scratched into the dark window read: Let them finish. Ask what you missed.

The Night Train

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A watercolour of a person in a green cardigan at an upright piano at dawn, a folded dust cloth beside them and pencil-marked music on the stand. Gold brush letters on the wall read: Not from zero. From here.

From Here

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A linocut print of two friends at dusk beside a packed hatchback, one handing over a tied bundle of flat boxes. Cream carved lettering across the sky reads: Before I offer something smaller, can I keep it without breaking a promise I've already made?

What You Can Carry

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

An egg tempera painting of a potter opening a bowl on the wheel, with shelves of pots and a leaning cart wheel behind. Terracotta letters brushed on the plaster wall read: Before clearing anything, ask what needs room here, and what holds that room open.

Room to Hold

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A cut-paper collage of a person on a blue-hour balcony leaning close to a guitar to tune one string. Marigold paper letters across the sky read: Too tight or too slack, it won't play. Am I listening to the sound, or to my effort?

Better Tuned

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A gouache painting, seen from above, of a kitchen table covered in jigsaw pieces, a notebook, keys, a phone, a letter and a sleeping cat, with two hands fitting one piece. The puzzle lid reads: Not everything on this table belongs to the same puzzle.

This Piece

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A chalk pastel of three people of different ages at a dusk excavation, each uncovering a different part of a buried mammoth. Cream chalk lettering in the sky reads: What I found is real. Is what I've concluded bigger than what I found?

What I Found

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

An oil painting on wood of two older neighbours passing plums over a low brick wall beside a bolted wooden gate. Painted lettering in the sky reads: I can stop holding this against you. What I trust you with again is a separate question.

Over the Wall

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A screenprint of a snow-covered outdoor table-tennis table with two paddles left on it, while two friends walk away along a snowy path, each holding a steaming cup. Mustard lettering in the sky reads: The game has stopped for winter. What did we share besides it? One walk might tell us.

After the Season

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A hand-coloured etching of narrowboats at different levels on a canal lock flight, facing different directions and carrying different loads, with an older lock-keeper at a paddle. Brass lettering in the sky reads: Higher up the locks, but further along? That depends which way they're heading and what they carry.

The Lock Flight

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A Bengal School-style wash painting of a street tailor under a neem tree at dusk, measuring one seam of a saffron kurta that a customer holds up and points to. Pale gold lettering in the deep blue sky reads: The seam is crooked. That I can check. ‘Careless’ is a bigger claim than one seam can show.

One Seam

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

An egg tempera painting of a grey-haired baker kneeling to feed the fire of a domed outdoor bread oven at dusk, with cloth-covered baskets of rising dough on a bench. Burnished gold lettering in the deep blue sky reads: I am waiting for the dough to rise, not for the fire to go out.

While It Rises

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A painting in the Persian miniature tradition of five people seated in a circle on a carpet in a lantern-lit garden pavilion at night, around a small sand timer, while one reads aloud from a folded letter. Turquoise lettering in the deep lapis sky reads: Same turn for everyone. Is that the point of the rule, or just its shape?

The Shape of the Rule

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A Japanese shin-hanga-style woodblock print of a picker resting on a straw mat under a persimmon tree in late afternoon, beside a half-filled crate of fruit and a leaning bamboo ladder. Cream lettering in the deep teal sky reads: Not a reward for finishing. Not fuel for tomorrow. The work can wait an hour.

The Crate Can Wait

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A gouache painting of a dusk courtyard under a lemon tree. An older person on a bench looks through the pages of a rain-swollen book while a younger person stands holding out a new copy wrapped in brown paper. Warm ivory lettering in the rose-violet sky reads: I ruined your book. I can bring a new copy. Whether that’s enough is yours to say.

Yours to Say

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A colour reduction linocut of two roped climbers on a summer rock ridge at dusk. The leader pauses at the start of a narrow crest and looks back along the rope at an older partner braced on a ledge, with layered peaks behind. Ochre carved lettering in the violet sky reads: Feeling sure isn’t the test. What is this for, and who else is on the rope?

Who Else Is on the Rope

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A watercolour and ink painting on mulberry paper of terraced paddy fields at dusk. A kneeling farmer on a raised channel bank lifts one wooden sluice board, letting water spill down into the single dry, cracked plot among water-filled ones, while a younger neighbour beside them points out across the fields. Deep ink-brown lettering in the pale celadon sky reads: That fact changes my plan. Which part does it change, and what still stands?

What Still Stands

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print

A layered cut-paper collage of a windy moorland campsite at dusk. An older camper holds a half-pitched orange tent's front pole upright while a young man kneels to hammer a guy-line peg, with a green tent and lantern behind. Saffron lettering in the deep blue sky reads: Hoping you’d notice isn’t asking. Could you hold this pole for five minutes? A no is fine.

A Request with a Shape

Phone wallpaper · A4 & Letter print