'Night and Day' started off as a drawing made while Hammick was on holiday in Greece. A spaceship-like boat sailed into the bay, completely changing the scale of the surroundings.

‘Rather like the way figure and ground relationships are arranged in an Indian miniature, I wanted to depict my son, Charlie, small in comparison to the space around him to emphasize his isolation and to stretch and push and pull the picture plane’ – Tom Hammick

The colours in the first layer of the woodcut were arranged according to temperature. The subsequent layer of carving revealed nicks of colour to help delineate the simplistic forms of trees, rocks, the horizon and shore-line. Silver pigment was added to the colours for the sea, sky and shore to create heavy, flat and saturated hues. The composition shows the influence of traditional Japanese screens and after making this triptych, Hammick adapted one of the prints to become a freestanding six-panel piece.