Adam Ritchey Printmaking

Adam Ritchey Printmaking https://www.adamritcheyprints.com 120741258 Ozark Winter Linocut, 2025Hand-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. 2.00 USD https://www.adamritcheyprints.com/product/ozark-winter https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/429744732/ritchey-linocut-mountain-forest-under-snow.jpg https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/429744276/Ozark_Forest_Winter______Linocut_2025.jpeg 120741258 new in stock 120739953 Study of a Study Linocut, 2026Hand-pulled relief print Black ink on white paper Signed, dated, and stamped with artist's chop Image size: 9" x 12" Paper size: 12" x 18"Edition Size: 40 UnframedDESCRIPTION Some part of each of us wants a private place to sit among our own collection of books. No phone, no television, no politics. Just a comfy chair, a dim lamp, and rain pattering against the window. STUDIO NOTE At first I wasn't sure that simple parallel lines would read as books, but to my surprise, they couldn't be anything else. Though the scale is slightly off... the chair and table are a bit too small for the bookcases, unless the bookcases are ten feet tall. 64.00 USD https://www.adamritcheyprints.com/product/study-of-a-study https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/429739845/Study_of_a_Study____Linocut_2026.jpeg 120739953 new in stock 120739509 Desert Ocean Woodcut, 2025Hand-pulled relief print Black ink on white paper Signed, dated, and stamped with artist's chop Image size: 9" x 12" Paper size: 12" x 16"Edition Size: 40 Unframed DESCRIPTION Desert Ocean refuses to say what you are looking at. Made entirely of parallel cuts — vertical above the horizon, horizontal below — it has no outlines, no crosshatching, no tonal shading. Some clearly see a distant chain of islands among a sweep of gentle waves; others distinctly envision pyramidal peaks bordering a wind-swept desert plain. Where some see a foreground of boulders, others see a reef and pools at low tide. The print doesn't settle any of it. Whichever landscape you arrive with is the one you'll see. And you are allowed to change your mind.STUDIO NOTE Desert Ocean owes an obvious debt to M.C. Escher's earliest geometric woodcuts. 48.00 USD https://www.adamritcheyprints.com/product/desert-ocean https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/429738384/Desert_Ocean______Woodcut_2025.jpeg 120739509 new in stock 120739236 Marrakesh Linocut, 2026Hand-pulled relief print Black ink on white paper Signed, dated, and stamped with artist's chop Image size: 6" x 9" Paper size: 9" x 12"Edition Size: 40 Delivered UnframedDESCRIPTION: The low-angle Moroccan sun throws buildings of stucco into sharp relief, dividing a street into what the light reaches and what it doesn't. Whether the long shadows indicate a cool, still morning or a stifling late afternoon is not something the print will settle for you. It is entirely up to the viewer. People who've been to Morocco tend to feel the heat. People who haven't tend to hear the quiet.STUDIO NOTE: I've never been to Morocco. My son went during a college spring break trip and sent me several interesting photographs — it all looked like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Marrakesh lends itself nicely to the idiosyncrasies of linocut, which can at times appear raw and rough-hewn. Light is either there or it isn't. Beginning to end, this piece was conceived, sketched, and carved in under an hour. 48.00 USD https://www.adamritcheyprints.com/product/marrakesh https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/429737994/Marrakesh____Linocut_2026.jpeg 120739236 new in stock 120739107 Ghost Town I Linocut, 2025Hand-pulled relief prints 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 A hillside town under a twilight moon, its stairs and arcades stacked into a single vertical climb. The buildings are worked in fine detail — every course of stone, every arch, every roofline. The inhabitants get none. No faces, no limbs, no clothing, just solid black shapes moving up the staircases and across the bridges. The town is not abandoned. It's just that nobody living is in it.STUDIO NOTE I drew half a dozen versions of this in my sketchbook before committing to the linoleum. It was one of my earliest large, detailed images, and it took three days to carve — nearly all of it on the architecture. The figures took almost no time at all. In relief printing, black is what you leave behind, so the inhabitants were part of the block I never touched. Figures created by inaction. 140.00 USD https://www.adamritcheyprints.com/product/ghost-town-i https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/429737172/Ghost-Town.jpg 120739107 new in stock