By: Charles Eckart

Medium: soft ground etching with aquatint
Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches
Edition size: unknown
Year: 2008

Charles Eckart’s The Gift (2008) is a quietly tender image that reveals the artist’s warmth and humor within his finely crafted etchings. A small mole emerges from its burrow, clutching a morsel in its paws, rendered with the same delicate linework and sensitivity Eckart brings to his landscapes. Through his soft ground etching and aquatint technique, he transforms a simple moment of nature into a meditation on curiosity, generosity, and the quiet presence of life beneath the surface.

Charles Eckart created Christmas cards for friends and family for more than 48 years. There is also a fine Press book including each of the prints along with notation which is available HERE