Britain's most spectacular commemoratives, No31: 1995 Springtime 41p
In stark contrast to the preceeding sets devoted to the other three seasons, all five values in the 1995 Springtime issue were designed to puzzle the viewer on first appearance.
In that, the highest value succeeds especially well! Is it a representation of the Sun in computer-altered colours? A black hole? Part of an eye? Some psychedelic vision induced by drugs? Not quite, but it is grass!
It’s a very effective photographic essay showing hundreds of fresh green blades, with white stems, laid around a central void in a starburst pattern to suggest the growing season exploding into action.
It takes the breath away, as no simple lawn could ever hope to do.
Design: Andy Goldsworthy.
Printing: photogravure by Harrisons.
