Idylls by Theocritus
A collaboration from 2011 - 2015 with poet and classicist, Dr Ben Jasnow, to translate and illustrate the Idylls by Theocritus. They are presented here with the translations which inspired them.
Idyll 1 - The song of Thyrsis
Begin my muses
Fishing with foxes
Black sun
The lonely shepherd
Again muses
Drag me off
Black hive
Daphnis dying
Bring an end muses
Fig
The softest place
Digital prints, 2011 - 12
Images 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 all 29 x 21 cm
Images 1, 2, 5, 8, 9 all 29 x 42 cm
Idyll 2 - The spell of Simaetha
The magic wheel
The sorceress
Hair
Fire and cloak
The witch's house
Moon
We went until the very end
Aflame
Wall
Cracks
Flight
Close up for the winter
Digital prints, 2011 - 12
Images 1 - 7 all 29 x 21 cm
Images 8 - 12 all 42 x 29 cm
Idyll 3 - The goatherd’s serenade
Digital prints, 2013 - 14
42 x 29 cm
Idyll 4 - The herdsmen
Leaning post
Leaning post
Wood
Morning call
Thorn
Little life, little death
Digital prints, 2015
Images 1, 3, 4, 5 all 29 x 21 cm
Image 2 - 42 x 29 cm
Image 6 - vertical diptych, each sheet 29 x 21 cm
Idyll 6 - Damoetas and Daphnis sing the cyclops
Spring
Stargazing
When a cyclops cries
Down, boy
Practice
Neither victory nor defeat
Angst in my pants
Digital prints, 2012 - 13
Images 1 and 7 all 29 x 21 cm
Images 2 - 6 all 42 x 29 cm
Idyll 7 - The harvest-home
We share the way, we share the day
Boat and bees
The second song
Chirps of suffering
Digital prints, 2011 - 12
Images all 42 x 29 cm
Idyll 10 - The reapers
A day parted
Bite
Offal
The sower
Sleepless night
Digital prints, 2014 - 15
Images 1 triptych, each sheet 29 x 21 cm
Images 2 - 5 all 29 x 21 cm
Idyll 12 - The hearkener
Two days and two nights
The inspirer
The listener
Heaven
Digital prints, 2013-14
Images all 42 x 29 cm
Idyll 13 - Hylas
The deep gulf of Phasis
Bow
Crashing
Sunken star
'Hylas!'
Spring in her eyes
Fright 1
Fright 2
Fright 3
Follow
Frig
Down in the mouth
Digital prints, 2013-14
Images 1 and 3 - 42 x 29 cm
Images 2, and 4-12 - 29 x 21 cm
Idyll 18 - The epithalamium of Helen
Digital prints, 2013-14
Images - 42 x 29 cm
Ancient Songs, Modern Muses
Exhibition by John Woodman and Ben Jasnow at The Bridge PAI, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2013
Private view talk by Dr Ben Jasnow, concerning the joint exhibition of poetry and painting translations of the Idylls by Theocritus.
Open University Interview
An interview between poet and classicist, Dr Ben Jasnow, and painter, John Woodman, about their collaboration to illustrate and translate the Idylls by Theocritus.