Drawn to the woodcuts prints of late 19th century Edvard Munch (the artist best known for ‘The Scream’), Japanese artist Shiko Munakata and the work of William Blake, John Ryrie has established himself as an adept storyteller through the medium of printmaking.

In ‘The Traveller and the Fortune’, he depicts the eponymous Aesop fable. According to the fable, a traveller falls asleep beside a well – he is about to fall in and drown when the personification of Fortune, fearing she will be blamed for his death, wakes him. At once a reminder that we are the masters of our destiny, the fable is also a heeding against folly for it is more often our own impudence, rather than fate or luck, that undoes us.

Ryrie is an esteemed printmaker. He was awarded the Grand Prize in the Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints and a finalist in the Geelong acquisitive print awards, and is represented at the National Gallery of Australia. For collectors of contemporary prints and visual storytelling, ‘The Traveller and the Fortune’ is an expressive, sage find.

John RYRIE (1961 - )
'The Traveller & Fortune' 1999
woodcut on paper
Edition of 15
Image Size: 61 x 44 cm
Dimensions: 77 x 56 cm
Signed: Signed 'John Ryrie', editioned, titled, dated under image
 
Comes with Letter of Provenance
Stamped by Chrysalis Publishing on lower right corner.
 
Condition: Excellent
 
(c) John Ryrie / Copyright Agency