It has been almost a full cycle of Wild Talk. And we have a real *treasure* of a plant coming up in Oct! With original linocuts from the inimitable @vanessa_mckiel. @lunenburgbarnacle www.thebarnacle.ca/tag/wild-talk/ #naturewriting #nativeplants #naturalizedplants #ediblewildplants #weedsnotlawns

All carved and ready to print! #printmaking #linocut #commissionedart

"Front Harbour with Fishes" 23" x 23" hand-coloured linocut with letterpress chine-collee is off to a new home! #linocut #printmaking #printmaker

Tiny little prints on scraps of paper! #queenanneslace #linocut #printmaking

"Front Harbour with Fishes" 23x23" hand-coloured linocut with letterpressed chine colle is now front stage at the Lunenburg Art Gallery and I am so honoured and grateful! #printmaking #linocut #novascotiaartist

I am back from a fabulous 2 week artist residency on Nova Scotia's Brier Island. I was able to print 2 big linocuts (23x23") and now am happily hand-colouring fields of wildflowers. #linocut #printmaking #reliefprinting

The first ten (of 25) are finished! 'Cod's eye view' 12x12" hand-coloured linocut with letterpress chine colle #linocut #printmaking

Woohoo!! My 24x24" image has been transferred to the linoleum block and I am carving! #printmaker #linocut #linogravure #xilografia #novascotiaartist #reliefprint

I am excited that my idea to letterpress onto red tissue paper before gluing it on to the print seems to have worked. This technique is called chine colle, but I will have to call this letterpress chine collee! #linocut #printmaking #letterpress #chinecolle

More newborn prints! Finally finished carving a 12x12" lino and spent the day pulling prints. Once these have dried I will be painting the town! #linocut #printmaking

Mayflowers in April! Mayflowers 4x4" linocut #linocut #printmaking #mayflowers #trailingarbutus

When you think you are paying attention and your test print confirms that you actually were not! It's taken a long time but my tiny books are nearly there. Just printing the covers and then binding. #letterpress #linocut #printmaking

Some progress on the work in progress! #printmaking #linocut

New work in progress! This is a 12x12" study for the larger 24x24" linocut I am planning. #printmaking #reliefprint #linocut #linogravure #xilografia #novascotiaartist #oldtownlunenburg

Newborn prints! Nova Scotia's provincial flower should be blooming in a month or so. Mayflowers 4x4" linocut #printmaker #linocut #linogravure #novascotiaartist #mayflowers #trailingarbutus

And sometimes, spring in Nova Scotia moves so slowly that it seems to go backwards! A sugar snow covered everything last night. Luckily, snowdrops have antifreeze proteins and can create their own heat. #flowerpower #novascotiaspring

Spring in Nova Scotia is never in a hurry, but it is here! One day I might make a linocut inspired by these images. #printmaker #novascotiaspring

The spring rains have turned the lungwort lichen its lovely bright green! Lungwort lichen 4x4" linocut #printmaking #linocut #lichen #novascotiaartist

The snowdrops are finally emerging in my yard and my snowdrop prints are nearly finished too! I printed some with sepia ink and some with green -- not sure which I like better! Do you have a preference? #printmaking #linocut #snowdrops

Learning Letterpress: 1. Old school: type is set and ready to ink for a test proof 2. New school: take a photo on a smart phone and flip it :) I am sure it will get easier but it is remarkable how many typos you can make when you think you are being careful #letterpress

Snowdrops!! 9x9" hand-coloured linocut #linocut #printmaking

"What the people want is simple - they want an America as good as its promise." --Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, born on this day in 1936, and as relevant as ever With gratitude to amos paul kennedy jr and his school of bad printing 😊 #letterpress #printmaking

Pleased with the test print but not pleased with the inconsistent ink transfer in some subsequent prints. I think this is why carving is my favourite part of the process: the image is done, and the trials of printing are a theoretical thing. There is just being present in the carving 😊 #printmaking

My snowdrops block is carved and ready for a test print! #printmaking #reliefprinting #linocut #snowdrops

Believe me -- there are snowdrops under all that snow in my yard, and I am conjuring them up with a new linocut! #printmaking #linocut #novascotiaartist

Excited to share that I am starting to learn about letterpress! A huge thank you to @gaspereaupress.bsky.social for a terrific day of inspiration & teaching yesterday. But fear not, I am still in deep with inky hands, working on several new linocuts! #letterpress #printmaking #linocut

February & rubine red #printmaking #linocut #novascotiaartist

This morning in Nova Scotia: minus 20C windchill on the outside, morning sun & tulips on the inside.

Posting some ultramarine on this here blue sky place! #printmaker #linocut #ultramarine #novascotiaartist