Coordinator: Mike Lyon
Details:
- Medium: Woodblock print–hand rubbed or pulled on a press, any pigments, any paper
- Theme: Four Seasons
- Paper Size: Oban (15 x 10 in / 38 x 25.5 cm)
- Paper Type: No restriction
Deadlines:
- Registration period: January 1, 2025 to January 31, 2025
- Drop-out deadline: February 28, 2025 If you must drop out of the exchange, please do so as early as possible in order to give people on the waiting list time to complete and submit their prints.
- Deadline to mail your prints: March 31, 2025
Joanna Bradley, Australia
Dingo pups learn to hunt in spring
10 x 15 inches, 4 cherry faced plywood blocks, Holbein gouache on Thai Kozo washi, edition 24. Wood carving by Tom Kristensen based on small rubber carvings by Jo Bradley. https://doubledaggerart.com
Fernando Gomez, Vitória, ES, Brazil
A fruit for each season amidst climate change
10 x 15 inches, 1 block (Peroba-rosa wood / Aspidosperma polyneuron), Black Typographic ink on Kozo, edition 18. The composition is one photograph of a still life I took some time ago. The ground was also from a photograph of another still life. I merged it to upgrade the contrast. I draw the block with black and white dermatograph pencils. I printed the block first with a calcographic press and concluded hand pulled.
Dimitris Grammatikopoulos, Terneuzen, The Netherlands
Baren 99 – 4 Seasons
15 x 10 inches, 1 block of linoleum, Water-based black ink, LeFranc & Bourgeois on Fabriano Unika beige, edition 20. Impressionist approach, cutting without prior sketch to maintain the vividness of expression
Karma Grotelueschen, Lake Redstone, Wisconsin
Fox’s Seasons
15 x 10 inches, cherry block, Blick on sumi e, edition open. Bare winter trees, spring woodland wildflowers, summer prairie forbs, and autumn falling oak leaves surround a wild fox.
Wanda Hemmings, Tacoma WA
Four Seasons
15 x 10 inches, 2 lino blocks, Caligo Safe Wash on Simili paper, edition 20.
Eric Kitchen, Dallas, Texas
Reason for the Seasons
10 x 15 inches, 2 blocks of MDF, Speedball Water-soluble on Accent Opaque Digital 100#, edition 18. My second multi-block color print shows the earth’s path that results in the four seasons. The Sun’s rays allowed me to create the flowing lines which is becoming a signature of my emerging style. I really like to let the chisel fly across the board to get the flowing lines like in this piece. https://www.instagram.com/eric75252/
Mechelle Kitchen, Dallas,Texas
Make a Wish
15 x 10 in, 1 block, Black – Caligo safe was on Ascent opaque digital. 100#, edition 20. It has all 4 stages of the dandelion going through all 4 seasons in one picture.
Martha Knox, Philadelphia, PA
Four Seasons Finch
15 x 10 inches, 1 linoleum block, Speedball oil based black ink on Snow White Canford Imperial, and also paper for chine colle, edition 30. I love growing sunflowers just so I can watch the finches who turn bright yellow in the summer come to my yard. https://marthaknox.com
Tom Kristensen, Sydney, Australia
Red-tailed black cockatoos breed in spring
10 x 15 inches, 6 cherry faced plywood blocks, Holbein goauche on Thai kozo unsized, edition 20 plus 3 AP. Red-tailed black cockatoos mate for life but breeding success depends on seasonal variation in food supply. Nests are built in the tree hollows lined with grass. More information about cockatoo ecology on the double dagger art site. https://doubledaggerart.com
Mike Lyon, Kansas City, MO USA
Autumn Sweetgum
10 x 15 inches, Four 1/4 inch basswood plywood blocks engraved by laser, Guerra Paint & Pigment – carbon black, cadmium yellow medium, quinacridone magenta 195, tetra-chloro periwinkle on 100% kozo washi by Iwano Heizaburo mill (特厚ー神興シーニ号 ドサ Tokuatsu-Jingoushi-nigou Dosa), edition Baren edition of 18 plus 5. Sweetgum trees line the street in front of my home. In autumn the leaves turn brilliant shades of yellow, green and red. https://mlyon.com
Bronwyn Merritt, Orlando, Florida
Four Season Still Life
15 x 10 inches, 1 polystyrene block, Cranfield on Strathmore printmaking paper, edition 20. 3 color reduction
Julio Rodriguez, Skokie, Illinois USA
Vivaldi’s 4
15 x 10 inches, Two blocks, plastics, Woodblock printmaking inks on Borden & Riley Co., bond paper, edition 20 prints. Image design after the four famous violin concertos “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Published in 1725 they each evoke one of the seasons; Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter. I have always loved violin music since taking a few lessons a young child in Cuba. Later here in the US I took violin lessons from a Russian Concertmaster and apprenticed violin making with one of Chicago’s best known makers. My violin & cello music collection is over 1500 albums & CDs. The violin pattern in the print is an exact copy taken from an original Antonious Stradivarius violin from 1733. Seven colors were used to represent the seasonal color changes.
Juergen Stieler, Flensburg, Germany
Four Seasons
15 x 10 inches, 5 linden plywood blocks, Caligo Safe Wash and Speedball Relief Ink on Clairefontaine Japon Simile 150g, edition 18. Experienced only in Linoleum and PVC floor, I wanted to get familiar with the material “wood”. Especially in view of #100 where it is a must and I hope to participate. Wood was a real challenge for me, and the first knowledge I gained is that plywood won’t work as a key block (for me). Also in my opinion relief inks work better with Linoleum than plywood on dry paper, at least I printed 42 and destroyed 24 of them… With the exception of the key block all other four were made by the jigsaw method with more or less identical areas mounted on a large board. Registration was a challenge, too.
Robert Viana, New Hampshire, USA
Four Seasons
15 x 10 inches, single color single block, Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash Relief Ink, Black on Reeves Lightweight Cream, edition 21. https://www.robertviana.com
Dana Wangsgard, Berea, Kentucky – USA
Two Worlds, One Girl
215 x 10 inches, 1 lino block, gamblin Black on Stonehenge 250 gsm, edition 32. The lesson’s learned from the discipline of ballet transformed the girl into an engineer. This piece represents the multiple inputs that make up the whole. We never just wear one hat (or shoe) and hopefully, at some point, all comes together to best protect and form who we become. https://www.bocoteart.com/
Late drop-outs:
- Dawn Slover (USA – dropped out March 15, 2025)
- William Joel (USA – dropped out April 11, 2025)
- Md. Faizur Rahman Firoz (Bangladesh – non-responder dropped April 11, 2025)