No. 10 Jo Rodwell – “The buzz around Piccadilly and Fishergate Postern Tower” Linocut
Artist’s note:
The process taken to create these linocut designs starts with sketching and photographing the subjects and characters that are to be included in the design. Following this, the sketches are transferred onto an iPad where changes to the perspective and scale are made and the composition starts to take shape. Each composition includes researched historical references that are relevant to the focus of the design, as well as current references. This linocut design was created with the help of drone photography to get the skyline view correct from the point of the Postern Tower. There are many symbolic references within the linocut too, such as the stonemason’s marks in the bricks, the animals that refer to the old markets in Parliament Street, and the houses that still have family bloodlines living there that date back to early records of the Postern Tower community.” (NOTE Copyright Restrictions)
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FoYW’s note:
This shows how York’s city walls run to, then stop at, Fishergate Postern Tower. The tower is shown guarding its little gateway through the city walls in the pool of plain pale pavement front right. Clifford’s Tower, the keep of York’s royal castle, is shown on the other side of the river Foss from the postern tower. The river was much wider when the walls were built, it had been dammed to make a moat around the castle and it came right up to the postern tower. The city walls start again to the left of the castle shown here and circle the city, including the Minster shown in the background here. Masons’ marks shown here on dark stones in the city walls are in reality easier to see about 10 metres to the right of where they are shown.
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Posted / Updated 16th February 2026 AF
