WILLIAMS GALLERY WEST

presents
CALIFORNIA WOODBLOCK PRINTMAKING

WORKS BY CONTEMPORARY WOODBLOCK PRINTMAKERS 

KIRSTEN FRANCIS

BRIDGET HENRY

TOM KILLION

ANDREA RICH

WHEN: Saturday November 17th, 2001 through January 20th, 2002
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17th, 5-7 p.m.
RSVP by phone or email

(559) 683-5551

jon.bock@bigfoot.com

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 p.m.- 6 p.m. and by appointment

WHERE: The Williams Gallery West, 40680 Highway 41, Oakhurst, California

ABOUT THE ARTISTS: 

KIRSTEN FRANCIS

Kirsten Francis is a reduction woodblock printmaker living and working in Cardiff California.  Francis combines the human figure with archetypal symbolism from myth and folklore to express the beauty and brutality of life.  Her images are a synthesis of raw creativity and a long, labor intensive process. Her strong sense of graphic design, bold use of color, and gestural line work culminate in timeless images inspired by emotion and personal experience.

BRIDGET HENRY

Bridget Henry lives and works by the sea in Northwest Santa Cruz.  Her reduction woodblock prints combine bold color, rough line work, and narrative subjects into highly personal works. Her image are emotive, provocative, and dreamlike.  Henry is a graduate of University of California Santa Cruz, and a 2001 recipient of the James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking.

TOM KILLION

Tom Killion is a well established California landscape printmaker from Santa Cruz, California.   Killion creates masterful landscapes of the California Coast and the High Sierra in a style influenced by the age old traditions of Japanese printmaking.  Killion's work combines tradition, skill, and personal vision into stunning compositions that evoke the divine beauty of the wild landscapes of America.

ANDREA RICH

Andrea Rich is an internationally known wildlife printmaker from Santa Cruz California.  Her images of birds, mammals, and other wildlife are wonderfully detailed and skillfully rendered.  Her subjects are depicted in their natural environments, and composed in a manner that expresses the character and personality of the species she chooses to portray.