Photos from Penland, North Carolina

Here’s the view from my window–upon waking.

Blue Ridge Mountains, Penland, N.C.

And a photo from Goedele, our instructor for “Image, Book, Box”:

Another view of the Blue Ridge Mountains

Wyatt, 1 of the dogs of Penland

Wyatt (below), is the first of the critters in my Dogs of Penland book. We’re doing intaglio on plastic/acrylic plates. Pretty much all drypoint. It’s great here at Penland–I can work much of the night and nobody minds. Great facilities and great atmosphere to just get some art done.

Wyatt, hand-colored intaglio, 5cm x 8cm

Goedele Peeters is our instructor and she is AMAZING! I feel so lucky to be in her class. She combines intaglio with woodcut and more. Teaching us different ways to do drypoint and combination printing that I didn’t know about before. See her work online at Goedele Peeters.

It is Not a Myth

This is a hand-colored woodcut, featuring one of the boars from the farm where we get our feeder pigs every year. This print is one in an edition of 20, created for an international  folio exchange, entitled “Assorted Mythology.” I decided to tell a visual tale surrounding the “myth” of bodies disappearing on hog farms. It is not a myth. End of story.