Iris Steensma - Printmaker

Iris Steensma - printmaker: grim tales

Women didn't have an easy time in fairy tales...
All prints are 15 x 15 cm, and are hand-coloured Linocuts
Click on the thumbnails to see close up images

Cinderella

The Princess and the Frog

Little Red Riding Hood

The Princess and the Pea

Snow White

Sleeping Beauty

Rapunzel

One young girl was sent out into a forest full of hungry wolves, another did all the housework for seven little men and then her step-mother tried to poison her.
One other scrubbed and cleaned and cooked waiting to try on a lost glass shoe so that she could marry a prince. One young woman had to sleep for a hundred years waiting for her prince to turn up; another could not sleep at all, and had to be be extremely sensitive to prove that she was of royal blood and suitable for a princely marriage.
And how do you feel about having to kiss a frog?
My favourite is Rapunzel, named after a root vegetable, imprisoned in a tower, and then had a strange prince climb up her long hair with some unexpected consequences.
This is a good website to read all the fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers.

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Women didn't have an easy time in fairy tales... All prints are 15 x 15 cm, and are hand-coloured Linocuts Click on the thumbnails to see close up images
Cinderella	The Princess and the Frog	Little Red Riding Hood	The Princess and the Pea
Snow White	Sleeping Beauty	Rapunzel
One young girl was sent out into a forest full of hungry wolves, another did all the housework for seven little men and then her step-mother tried to poison her. One other scrubbed and cleaned and cooked waiting to try on a lost glass shoe so that she could marry a prince. One young woman had to sleep for a hundred years waiting for her prince to turn up; another could not sleep at all, and had to be be extremely sensitive to prove that she was of royal blood and suitable for a princely marriage. And how do you feel about having to kiss a frog? My favourite is Rapunzel, named after a root vegetable, imprisoned in a tower, and then had a strange prince climb up her long hair with some unexpected consequences. This is a good website to read all the fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers.