Description

Bríd Hand-Enhanced Collectors Edition Print

This is a limited edition print of just 25. First come, first served.

Low numbers are the lowest cost so get yours now!

Print details

This alternate artwork of Bríd is the first collaboration to be released between Jim Fitzpatrick and renowned Image Comics (WildStorm Rising) and Marvel Comic book colourist Eric Hope.

Drawn first by Jim FitzPatrick in pen and ink it was then given to Eric Hope to colour digitally and the results are absolutely stunning, bringing this new Celtic artwork firmly into the 21st century.

Size: A3 (16″x11″).

The print is then hand-enhanced by the artist Jim FitzPatrick (no assistants, all by the hand of the artist himself) with gold and silver inks to add extra dimension and a personal touch to create a truly unique print.

Drawn, inked, printed, hand-enhanced, signed, embossed for authenticity, packed and posted by the artist Jim FitzPatrick. Colour by Eric Hope.

Direct from the artist is right!

Artist’s Note:

Hopefully this will be one of many collaborations with Eric Hope whose colour work I have admired for many years now, both painted and digitally coloured.

For me his artwork in collaboration with Barry Windsor Smith on Image Comics ‘Wildstorm Rising’ was a classic -and a masterpiece -so I am honoured to be working with him and my friend Lovern Kindzierski too in the creation of these new images of the goddess and saint Brigit-Bríd.

More to come in 2020. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades 🙂

The Story

St. Brigit’s Day is February first and this year I had the honour of creating a brand new Celtic artwork of one of Ireland’s most important saints and ancient Goddesses as part of the wonderful Herstory Ireland campaign. For this version, exclusively for HerStory Ireland, I collaborated with DC and Marvel comics genius Lovern Kindzierski. Lovern is credited with revolutionising the entire comic book and graphic novel industry by introducing the concept of digital colouring through his company Digital Chameleon. We have been collaborating beneath the radar for months now and this is the first published  result of our work together. Check him out on twitter @Lovern

Herstory Ireland is trying to give women their deserved role in Irish history which has, for the most part, glossed over any important female historical figures. Their campaign used this St. Brigit’s day 2020 as an opportunity to highlight the cause using a version of this image which was projected on the famous and iconic G.P.O. Dublin the headquarters of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Another objective of the image is to use it to focus the demand by HerStory Ireland for a new national holiday, Brigit’s Day, to honour the role of Mná na hÉireann, the Women of Ireland, in the creation of this independent nation and in the history of Ireland.

Newsletter subscribers, check out the making of Bríd blog post here! The password is the same as usual.

Please allow for 21 days until postage. These are drawn to order.