Checker Stools

I spent three weeks in the fall of 1998 at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado adding to my traditional moku-hanga and other water based print making skills with Hiroki Morinoue and Allen Smith. An artist in residence there, Ulrika Scriba from Gengenbach, Germany, was especially interested in the several booklets I had authored [...]

The Fisherman and his Wife

This was  my first ‘traditional’ multi-block Japanese woodblock print.  It was made during a two week workshop taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado.  That was a life-changing experience — VERY stimulating — and launched me into a whole new world of moku-hanga (traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking)!  WOW!  Total immersion [...]

1996 woodcuts

Early in 1996, for reasons I still don’t understand, really, I became fascinated by Japanese woodblock printmaking technique.  In January, I registered for a two week long workshop to be taught by Hiroke Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado — but I was waitlisted and didn’t know until shortly before the workshop [...]