Artist in Residence

Recently, my husband, David Showalter, and I were the Artists in Residence at the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts.  We were in residence during March 2016 for the entire month and we had a wonderful, magical time.  Pictured below is the new body of work that I created during our stay.  These works on paper are all cyanotypes, an alternative photo process invented in 1842 by Sir John Herschel.  Some of these are single exposure, some are double and there are even a couple that were exposed three times.

Big leaves/Falling 24″x18″

Fading 9″x12″

Ferns 24″x18″

fern over coral 18″x12″

St Croix Flora I 9’x12″

St Croix Flora I 9″x12″

fern under leaves 18″x12″

hibicus under ferns 24″x18″

leaves and sprigs 18″x24″

Branches 18″x24″

leaves over coral 18″x12″

leaves over ferns 24″x18″

Palm 18″x24″

Palm Rays 24″x18″

small fern 9″x12″

small flora 9″x12″

St Croix Flora III 18″x24″

tea-stained flora 9″x12″

These works will soon be on exhibition at The Blue Mutt in Christiansted, St Croix, USVI on April 26, 2016 for a joint show with David Showalter.  If you are in Christiansted at that time go visit the gallery and have a look!

 

Artist in Residence

I am very proud and pleased to announce that my husband, fellow artist David Showalter, and I have been chosen to be Artists in Residence at the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts in Frederiksted, St Croix, USVI!!  We will be on island from March 1-April 4, making new work, leading workshops, and performing a technique demonstration for the Artist Guild.  Time slows for no man, or woman, and the clock is ticking down towards March. We have only 42 more days to reach our goal for our Artist in Residence program at CMCA in St Croix! You can help out with you your donation to our GoFundMe campaign! We have excellent donor perks and, as always, we thank you all very much for your continued support.

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linocut on kitikata

Cyanotypes

These are cyanotype photograms with wax paper stencil screen prints on various paper types.

Apple in medias res

Hello friends!

I have some new work in progress; I wanted to try my hand at reduction woodcuts so here are some photographs of my process/progress.  Reduction prints are color prints done on one block as opposed to cutting a new block for each color and printing that.  I just printed my third color on this image last night.  The registration is “interesting” but I like the slight variations I’m getting on each print.

Prints in Print!

“Oh My Darlin’ I” makes an appearance in The Urbanite! To see more about this image and the others in this series, click here.

MAP: Out of Order

Today I am going to Maryland Art Place (MAP) to hang this drawing in “Out of Order” http://www.mdartplace.org/

drawing with wooden skewers and ink on found paper

Nude Girls!

These are a series of prints I did from images of late 19th-early 20th century erotica.  They are all linocuts (a method of relief printing) on kitikata (a type of Japanese rice paper which lends itself well to relief printing).  I love the marriage of the graphic nature of the images to the graphic quality of this particular printing medium.

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

linocut on kitikata

A Loving Embrace

Let’s talk a little bit more about process. These next few proofs/prints show part of the process of an intaglio print. Again, these are etchings and used hard-ground and aquatint to make the image. I wound up printing them on colored paper. I think you can see through the progression of images here how I came to the final result. I do like to draw on my proofs; it makes me feel less precious about the work and helps me to get ideas of how I want my final image to look.

silkworm spinning a cocoon

One of the many things I love about printmaking is the ability to make one image look an infinite numbers of ways. This is an etching on a found plate with hard ground and aquatint. These three prints were done using viscosity printing techniques. The first color was carded on and wiped with the tarleton rag like a regular intaglio plate. The second color, instead of being on a second plate, is rolled on with a hard roller and ink that is more viscous than the ink used for the first color.

This print is the same plate but instead of using the viscosity method, I used chine-collé to make the second color. Chine-collé is when an image is printed on a piece of paper that is glued to another piece of paper. So here the image is printed on a colored piece of paper which is glued to a piece of white Rives BFK with wheat paste.