Joan Stuart Ross + BODY PARTS series +

Joan Stuart Ross, on her most recent series, says

"My recent mixed media prints combine relief, monotype, digital images, hand stitching, collage and encaustic on vintage book pages. They are influenced by how, throughout history, body parts of ancient cultures’ sculptures have been joined, willy-nilly, to create hybrid forms and disparate personalities. I see these buried figures, discovered in midden heaps and under piles of wars’ refuse, as motifs that emphasize vulnerability and triste, a mournful quality from their having been thrown together from incongruent parts—a lamentation for our own time. These personalities have had a place in their found environment, and when unearthed, they take on new life".

Joan Stuart Ross studied at Yale, and earned MA and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa. She won SAM’s Betty Bowen Award, a NIAUSI Rome Fellowship, and has had residencies in Paris and Norway.

Perter Foucault, Nigel Oxley and Sue Patterson

Peter Foucault

Peter Foucault's print was part of the Print Zero's Fifth International Print Exchange. Print Zero exchange Number 5, (2007) Be prepared for a lot of looking - there are over three hundred odd prints on view !!

In trying to discover more about Foucault as an artist, it felt like he was just all over the place/ difficult to put your finger on and so I felt that a recent solo show, of his (co-incidentally) at Print Zero studio,
provided a welcome focus although I don’t know that I am necessarily further enlightened. However one must make ones own judgements.
When one considers that Print Zero, has had five print exchanges by now, the there is quite a considerable amount of prints to be seen at their current website:
Print Zero Studios

Nigel Oxley

I was prompted to search out his artwork through reading an article in Printmaking today, which discussed printmaking experimentation in etching. I thought I would maybe find work that would be really interesting.
However, the print featured here, was/is the only artwork I could find, i.e., created by Nigel Oxley.

He is a former master printer of the Kelpra Studios, which was
established in the UK, in the 1960’s. Apparently they introduced the practice of using silkscreen printing in fine art printmaking. One imagines that until then it had been used exclusively in the commercial sector.
All of the well known UK based, artists such as Kitaj, Tilson and Blake would have taken direction/collaborated with Oxley and his colleagues. Kelpra also worked with many of the well known American artists such as e.g., Dine, to produce prints and edition. It appears that Kelpra studios is no longer in operation.

As well as working as a senior lecturer at the Metropolitan University, London, Oxley
is also the author of the book “Colour Etching” published in 2007 by A & C Black, London

With regard to more recent activities in printmaking, Oxley has collaborated with artist, Susan Aldworth in the production of experimental etching techniques. Her artwork explores various aspects of the human brain.

Sue Patterson


Another rather elusive persona is that of, Sue Patterson.
She undertook her Masters in Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art, which is part of Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.
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She has exhibited at Temple Gallery, Vox Populi, , , Fabric Workshop and Museum, The University of the Arts, Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia; and , DE. She has been awarded Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant in sculpture, and her work is in the collections of Sunoco Corporation among numerous private collections.

Teague, Jones, Kreuger, Labuz and Raines

Lets start today with a couple of pieces I found by Clare Teague both using inkjet print with silkscreen. She is either just about to graduate or has just – I can’t remember which. But she says that she is interested in combining the two processes i.e., traditional printmaking and inkjet.

On a more curious note is the work of Claude Jones whose works are described as “biobobular” (it is unclear if this was her own description or that given by another)? The title of the works as in “Neo-Nates” and “Imperfecta” give an indication as to this artists concerns. Her pieces use intaglio, inkjet and wax.

Next we have a print by Andrzej Labuz (Poland) who uses drypoint and inkjet. I came across his work in the documentation of an exhibition held in 2004 in Thailand. He won joint first prize for this piece which although we cannot see physically gives to me the sense that it is well integrated conceptually and technically. No further references were available on the web concerning Labuz; although of course with my severely limited language skills in Polish it might just be a question of interpretation as opposed to publication

Last but not least are a couple of pieces by Michael Krueger who uses Lithography with inkjet.


Dennis Raines

Look out for a forthcoming interview with artist Dennis Raines about his printmaking practice, using inkjet and whatever else suits his wide ranging and witty ideas, sometime soon !!!

Johnny McMillan, Joan Stuart Ross, Michelle Boehm and Zebadiah

Quite a mixed bag this time – there’s Johnny (Johnny McMillan) who I first came across on Flickr. He’s from Ireland, in fact graduated from the NCAD in Dublin, a few years back. The print here is from his graduation exhibition. He said it was an absolute awful hassle to make. I get the impression J. is not doing anything in terms of printmaking nowadays as he has moved to Australia and seems to present himself primarily as a photographer.

While I was on Flickr, I also found the mysterious “Zebadiah” (don’t even know his family name). This was the only tradigital print he had on there, although I could see that he does do lithographic prints as well.

Michelle Boehm, a graphic designer from Philadelphia was another “one off-er”, where making tradigital work is concerned.

My guess is that maybe MB and Z. were driven by a desire to participate in a print exchange, which of course usually requires that an edition of e.g. 15 prints be sent to the coordinator.

Consequently the idea of combining a traditional technique with inkjet seems like a good idea. Whatever the context – it can sometimes help to give other people ideas for their creative work and of course that’s one of the excellent things that the Internet has going for it.

My final entry for this post is artist Joan Stuart Ross who has a very full resume and is obviously a very committed and serious artist. As well as jurying exhibitions, and teaching she is involved in running a print workshop. She seems to mainly like to work with monoprint as well as having extensively explored encaustic as a medium.

Colangelo, Zdzislaw, Niederhausen and Piasentin

All four of the artists are working in higher educational faculties on different parts of the American continent. Their roots, going by their family names point towards Italy, Eastern Europe, Germany and France ??.

Colangelo is a Canadian Born, American, who lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. Where inkjet is concerned , he uses a variety of printmaking processes to accompany it. Usually he employs one technique, at a time, i.e., these include collagraph, "chine colle" or silkscreen. More of his work can be seen at the Bruno David Gallery

As well as being a printmaker, Niederhausen also makes bookart which includes altered books as well as collaborations with poets. You can see more of her work on her personal website

Sikora Zdzislaw hails from Illinois, where he teaches fine art.

Piasentin is from California and is yet another professor (Pepperdine University) . He has had many international exhibitions and likes to experiment tradigitally by incorporating collage and embossing elements.

Tradigital Printmaking by Linden Langdon

Digital Elements in Printmaking

an article by Linden Langdon


This print was developed for a print exchange which has members from a number of countries throughout the world. The exchanges happen twice a year, around the summer and winter solstice. The print size is usually very small to fit into standard envelopes – 15 x 10cm for this one.
The exchanges are themed, and the current process is for each participant to send to a central coordinator who then collates the prints and returns the collection to each person. This is a great way to look at a wide range of print techniques and be in touch with artist internationally.
The digital layer for my print is originally a solar or sun print. This is a an item, in this case a twig of Myrtle which is an endemic Tasmanian tree, which is laid on a piece of photo sensitive paper and exposed in the sun.

I then scanned the solar print and altered it in Photoshop to produce the background for the print.
The top layer is a lino cut.

Linden Langdon

Pace Prints - anybody "mixing it" over there ??

Pace Prints, New York have been on the go since 1968 and with the facility of it's own print workshop, this well-known outfit has long been publishing editions too. Many well-known American artists are featured here I'd say there were only about 40% that I had not heard of.

Included on their books are luminaries such as Francesco Clemente, Kiki Smith (one of my own favorites) and Chuck Close. So that gives you an idea of its profile in the fine art world.

I guess if you’ve got your artwork represented there - then you can’t be doing too badly.

I found several artists of relevance in their gallery - these being Vik Muniz and Jane Hammond who I’d heard of previously, whereas
“Macdermot and McGough”, Mary Hellman, and Stephen Sollins were unknown to me.


Pace Prints