We rarely notice conifer seeds; either they have already flown out to try their luck on the forest floor, or we are seduced by the complexity of the cone. Here, I've spent some time looking at both in watercolour and graphite. O-Hisa, on the other hand, expresses my admiration for the master Japanese print maker Utamaro, who made print blocks of O-Hisa, of the Takashima Tearooms such that front and back printed on front and reverse of the paper would match up perfectly. In this print, she hold a fan, but in homage to my favourite Japanese master, Hokusai, here she feeds the birds.