Woodcut

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I visit a few bone yards that are filled with discarded trees, and friend’s occasional point me in the direction of a newly cut tree. Gill creates patterns not only of great beauty but also year-by-year records of the life and times of fallen or damaged logs. So when I speak of,” beyond the landscape”, I am referring to your own landscape, or more simply, “it is whatever you imagine.

These impressions highlight the complexity of the forms, almost mathematical, the fineness of the lines and the texture of the wood that becomes purely graphic. Creating large-scale relief prints from the cross sections of trees, the artist reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. I am experimenting with creating tools using nature to draw and paint with and even though Bryan hasn’t made the tool here, it is still a natural material applying paint to the paper surface. You’ll never know what you’re missing if you don’t find some way to get inside and look’ and that brought him closer to the gentle giants we live among. I send a LOT of snail mail, several letters a day, so I have a large collection of cards and these are in my Top 3 for certain.

BNG: Dendrology, the study of trees, a science that has given us historical data about our global environment and forever-changing climate. A Baren made of Hornbeam, (also known as Ironwood) and a Bamboo disc baren made with a Bamboo leaf and a recycled record player dust cleaner. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. One of Gill's first works after he resettled in Connecticut was a sculpture composed of 42 upside-down hanging Christmas trees.

BNG: I had a studio in New York City for a summer and had exhausted the money I received from a California drawing fellowship grant. He was profiled in Martha Stewart Living in 2012 and was the focus of a documentary video produced by the magazine. The prints are beautiful, the paper is a nice weight, they’re large and allow for a lot of writing, there is also a blurb on the back of each card. In 2012, Princeton Architectural Press published Woodcut, a book which displays a selection of Gill's prints; it was named one of The New York Times Magazine 's best books of the year. Bryan Nash Gill is Best Known for his prints taken from tree trunks/logs, capturing all the detail of the pieces of wood including the inner rings and outer bark layers.Some found objects find their way into a piece and others into the trash; depending on how long I’ve been staring at them.