The story behind the woods

Hazel Lithwood is not only a name, but a place — a forest imagined, yet deeply rooted in the real one. Here, every shadow, every branch, every breath of moss becomes a mark, a cut, an impression.

Hand holding a linocut gouge, tool of slow art and forest-inspired engraving.

I carve linocuts slowly, with the patience of trees.

Each gesture with the gouge is a dialogue between hand and forest, between silence and ink.

My prints are handmade, pressed one by one on paper that remembers every pressure, every imperfection, like bark remembering the wind.

Artist Hazel Lithwood standing in a sunlit forest, slow art inspired by nature and shadows.

The name carries two echoes:
“Hazel,” for the tree of intuition, protection, and wild paths.
“Lithwood,” a meeting of stone and forest, ink and paper, the permanence of carving and the fragility of leaves.

Framed handmade linocut print of a pine cone by Hazel Lithwood, displayed with pinecones and forest-inspired objects.

This work is slow art — art that resists haste, that grows like moss over time.

Every print is both an image and a fragment of nature, a story whispered in silence, a gentle gaze into the wild.

Through Hazel Lithwood, I invite you into this forest: to wander, to pause, to bring home a fragment of ink and bark.