Impressions of Nature on Instagram: "✨🌑✨Celebrating the Last New Moon of the Year today✨🌑✨ I love combining processes with these lino cuts and monoprinted foliage, its all a bit experimental and I couldnt resist splashing a bit of gold ink around, but it added something interesting I thought, it kind of grounded the Curlew. I often posts Curlews on new moons because their name, Numenius, comes from two Greek words: ‘neos’, meaning new, and ‘mene’, meaning moon, which alludes to the crescent sh

Impressions of Nature on Instagram: "✨🌑✨ Today we have the first new moon of 2026 in Capricorn ✨🌑✨ I love combining processes with these lino cuts, abstract backgrounds and monoprinted foliage, it’s all a bit experimental. I often posts Curlews on new moons because their name, Numenius, comes from two Greek words: ‘neos’, meaning new, and ‘mene’, meaning moon, which alludes to the crescent shape of the curlew’s bill, the Eurasian curlew’s species name, ‘arquata’, is derived from