All prints are handmade by Peter Ralston on archival rag paper with an archival ink set.

Small Matted Prints - This collection is printed on 8.5 x 11 inch sheets, matted, ready to be framed.

Sightings - This limited edition (LE) collection of 64 images is from Peter's 1997 book, Sightings. This edition is limited to 25 prints of each image plus five artist proofs (AP). They are printed on 17 x 22 inch sheets.

The Master Prints - This limited edition (LE) print is limited to 50 prints of this image plus ten artist proofs (AP). They are printed on 24 x 36 inch sheets.

Custom sizes of this image are available by special request. 

The story behind Outpost

From within this peaceful image, mixed messages emerge; there’s a sense of solitude and isolation, even as the presence of the church connotes community.

The Isle au Haut church is dwarfed and surrounded by the encroaching forest, and, if you look carefully, it is about to be overtaken by the looming fog bank, just visible but closing fast. The church, and perhaps all it represents, seems almost insignificant, like flotsam, floating along on the swell of a wave, pushed by ever-changing winds and tides. Metaphor abounds.

The practical Yankees who built churches along New England’s coast often put a cod atop the weathervane on the steeple. That fish was an elemental staple that literally sustained lives here for centuries.

In cod we trust. Faith meets pragmatism. Not a bad combination.