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The Honey House, Relief Print

CA$425.00

Wells and Oille managed over 500 beehives in multiple yards. They built The Honey House across the creek from The Owl Pen, as their processing location for all of their honey, which they sold at The Eaton Store in Toronto, and even had orders from Eisenhower at The White House, and from Queen Victoria. They had a small retail store in the front room of the building, where they sold honey to the many visitors- most of whom came up from Toronto after reading Well’s articles in The Tribune. Wells and Oille built their own frames for their hives, and processed the honey themselves, and you can see a large metal beam coming out from the second floor, which was likely used to lift and lower heavy materials up to the second floor. At the time, the Honey House was a top of the line facility, and has now been converted to a residential home.

This image is 13×20 inches and comes framed, please inquire for an unframed copy.

Handprinted with black archival oil based ink on 44g white Kozuke paper.

As seen in The Owl Pen Revisited print show at Orillia Museum of Art and History.

Wells and Oille managed over 500 beehives in multiple yards. They built The Honey House across the creek from The Owl Pen, as their processing location for all of their honey, which they sold at The Eaton Store in Toronto, and even had orders from Eisenhower at The White House, and from Queen Victoria. They had a small retail store in the front room of the building, where they sold honey to the many visitors- most of whom came up from Toronto after reading Well’s articles in The Tribune. Wells and Oille built their own frames for their hives, and processed the honey themselves, and you can see a large metal beam coming out from the second floor, which was likely used to lift and lower heavy materials up to the second floor. At the time, the Honey House was a top of the line facility, and has now been converted to a residential home.

This image is 13×20 inches and comes framed, please inquire for an unframed copy.

Handprinted with black archival oil based ink on 44g white Kozuke paper.

As seen in The Owl Pen Revisited print show at Orillia Museum of Art and History.

About Relief Printing: This print was created by carving the image into a block of linoleum, which is a flat material made of flax, pine rosin, wood flour, cork dust and calcium carbonate that is held together with a jute backing. Linocut is also known as lino printing and linoleum art, and is a printmaking technique that is a variation on woodcut, where the piece of linoleum is used to carve into rather than wood. The image is carved into the surface using a gouge (similar to a chisel), with the un-carved areas creating a reversal of the image to be printed. The linoleum is inked with a brayer, and printed onto the paper, either by hand or using a press.

About Kozuke Paper: Kozuke Paper is 30% kozo and 70% sulphite fibres. Kozo is fibre from the inner bark of a mulberry tree, and sulphite fibres are composed of cellulose from wood. 

Shipping: Within Canada, shipping is included. All prints are shipped by expedited shipping with tracking.

Please inquire for orders outside of Canada.