Ozark Winter

Linocut, 2025

Hand-pulled relief print
Black ink on fawn-colored paper
Signed, dated, stamped with artist's chop

Image size: 12" x 18"
Paper size: 18" x 24"

Edition Size: 50
Unframed

DESCRIPTION
It's always struck me, when you get one of those heavy snows that sticks around, that you can go outside in the dead of night, with no moon or stars, far from the city lights, and the ground is still bright white. How does that work? This is one of those nights.

STUDIO NOTE
I did a survey of the forest canopy with a little math and discovered this piece has over 3,800 individual carved leaves. Somewhere in there my wrist gave out, so I started drawing in more limbs (the black, untouched areas). Every branch I added reduced the number of leaves I had to pluck out. It also added to the complexity of the forest. Win-win.