Recent prints in area Shows and Exhibitions

"BIRDS"

CAA Members Show

June 13th-July 14th 2024

Concord Art Association

Concord, MA

Image: NIGHT VISION, two block, color linoleum

CAA 25th Roddy Exhibition

Juror, Meg Smith, Gallery NAGA director

September 6- October 20, 2024

Concord, MA

Image: FIELD ARTIST, linoleum block print

"Interpretive New England"

July 10- August 25th, 2024

Byran Memorial Gallery

Jeffersonville, VT

Image: SPRING STREAM RUNNING,

            color reduction linoleum

"Up, Down and Along the Way"

North of Boston Print Collaborative

July 2-July 31, 2024

Parker River National Wildlife 

Visitor Center, Newburyport, MA

Image: TOWN CRIER, linoleum block print

MINI GEMS

December 7, '24 - January 4th 2025

Society of  American Graphic Artists

Union Square Gallery, NYC 

Image: CALADIUMS 3, color linoleum print 

It's pie season

After devouring a delicious blueberry pie with friends, I decided to recycle the pie box and plastic container not into the recycle bin but into collagraph prints.

Looking at the aluminum pie tin I imagined it could be a sunflower head. Perhaps I have sunflowers on the brain. These last few weeks I have been outdoors painting and sketching lots of fields all aglow with brilliant yellow sunflowers. 

Here's some of the materials I used for making my collagraphs.

Here's my collagraph sunflowers I printed in my studio.

Inking table with inks and brayers for rolling up the plates.

For another sunflower print, I use the clear plastic container that housed the pie. I cut out a circular shape to be used as a printing plate. I then scratched deep lines into the plastic surface with a steel stylus, drawing a metal chair in a sunflower patch.

In addition to this plastic plate, other cardboard substrates were inked up and printed together on a press.

Here is the sunflower image inked and printed.

Presently, the fields of sunny sunflowers are fading.  Their large heads heavily laden with seeds are no longer upright turning towards the sun but hang low looking at the ground. The gold finches and other feathered guests are feasting on their nutritious bounty.

NYC Print Show

 

Area Holiday Shows

                                        Holiday Greetings!

Recent prints and drawings will be shown at the following holiday markets:

13Forest Gallery

167A Mass Ave

Arlington, MA

"PLENTY"

November 19-January 13, 2023

Western Ave Studios @ Studio 223

122 Western Avenue

Lowell, MA

December 3 & 10th, 12noon -5p and by appointment

Concord Art, Concord Center for the Visual Arts

37 Lexington Road

Concord, MA

December 1 - 18, 2022

Francesca Anderson Fine Art

56 Adams Street

Lexington, MA

"38th Annual Almost Miniatures Show"

December 2 - January 21, 2023

4x6, reduction linoleum prints made from charcoal sketches drawn on Monhegan Island, Maine