Ian Hamilton Finlay - Screenprint: Pastoral - Sold

Screen print by Bahamas-born artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (poet, author, visual artist). Finlay's parents were Scots. Number: 2/41. Year: 1996. Signed on the back. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

When purchased, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The collection period, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be sent. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.



Ian Hamilton Finlay (Nassau (Bahamas), October 28, 1925 – Edinburgh, March 27, 2006

Finlay had Scottish parents and was raised in Scotland. At the age of thirteen, at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated to the Orkney Islands. In 1942 he enlisted in the British Army.
After the war, Finlay initially worked as a sheepherder, but soon began writing short stories and poems. His first books were published: The Sea Bed and Other Stories (1958) and The Dancers Inherit the Party (1960). Several stories were filmed and broadcast by the BBC.
In 1963 Finlay published his first collection of poems Rapel, with which he achieved widespread fame. He published most of his works independently (Wild Hawthorn Press). He also started writing poems, so-called "One-Word-Poems", as inscriptions in stone, which he then left as comments in the landscape.