Colinet’s Journey

This work begins with an 1821 engraving by the British poet and artist William Blake. Titled 'Colinet’s Journey,' the original plate from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection depicts a shepherd guided by a spiritual figure through a pastoral landscape, a classic theme of the Romantic era.

The Surrealium atelier has created a contemporary, digitally assisted color interpretation of Blake's masterwork. This exclusive edition introduces a visionary palette of luminous gold, deep lapis blue, and translucent rose, giving the composition a new life reminiscent of tempera on panel. It is an exploration of color, not a historical restoration.

This specific interpretation is available to all as a fine-art print or gallery canvas. Subscribers to the Surrealium studio may also use the original engraving as a foundation to create their own custom-colored editions, exploring different palettes and artistic directions.

Your artwork is prepared as a gallery-quality fine-art print, made to order on matte, museum-grade paper with archival pigment inks for lasting color and detail. Each print from this collection is an edition of the Surrealium atelier at Kastellet, a 17th-century sea fortress in the Stockholm archipelago.