Bill Fick is a printmaker residing as well as doing work in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He received his B.A. from Duke University and his M.F.A. from University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Presently, Fick is the director of Cockeyed Press, which focuses on producing satirical linocut prints.
Fick’s work has been displayed in many solo as well as group displays across the country as well as around the globe including the Czech Republic, New Zealand, as well as Finland. Additionally, throughout his career, Fick has acted as a visiting artist, artist in residence, and professor to many art institutions across the nation.
Fick’s work could be seen in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The New York Public Library, New York, New York; and the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. In 1993, Fick was accorded a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and in 1995 a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship.
Jacques Hnizdovsky was a Ukrainian-American artist, printmaker, sculptor, ex libris designer, as well as book illustrator. Jacques Hnizdovsky was born in Ukraine in the Borshchivskyi Raion of Ternopil Oblast to direct descendants of a royal household bearing the Korab coat of arms. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Zagreb, and made countless paintings, and over three hundred prints (woodcuts, etchings and linocuts) right after his move to the United States Of America in 1949. He was influenced by woodblock printing in Japan in addition to the woodcuts of Albrecht Drer. These influences on his earlier works could be viewed on his website. The majority of his woodcuts, (apart from exhibition posters, which he likewise printed himself directly from the woodblock) have been printed on washi, which in English is incorrectly translated into “rice paper.
Henri Matisse was a French artist, recognized for his use of color and his fluid and authentic draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, as well as sculptor, but is known mainly as a painter. Matisse is frequently regarded, along with Picasso as well as Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artisans who helped to define the innovative improvements in the plastic arts in the opening years of the 20th century, accountable for major developments in painting and sculpture. His competence of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as being a leading figure in modern fine art.
Everett Ruess was an artisan and writer who explored nature which includes the High Sierras, California Coast and the deserts of the United States southwest, often by himself. His fate while traveling though a remote area of Utah has been a Western puzzle for several years. Ruess was known for cutting linoleum prints of nature as well as associated with Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. His prints display scenes from the Monterey Bay coast, the northern California coast in close proximity to Tomales Bay, the Sierra Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
Hannah Tompkins was an American artisan primarily known for her significant body of artwork primarily based on the writings of William Shakespeare. A catalog listing of her Shakespeare themed oil paintings appears in Shakespeare in American Painting: A Catalogue right from the late eighteenth century up to the present by Richard Studing. She started painting in earnest in the mid-1960s while teaching art at Ramapo Community College, Rockland County, New York. In 1979, she established the Shambles Gallery in Santa Cruz, California and in 1984 established the Shakespeare Art Museum located in Ashland, Oregon.
Printmaking is a very wide medium in art and can be studied nearly anywhere, in art classes or from printmakers. Once you know the basics, you will discover there are several techniques to create a really good print.