woodcut

‘Woodcut’ – Bryan Nash Gill

These prints are made from tree trunks collected by the artist from nearby his studio,making a cross-section through them and then manually going into the grooves of the growth circles with a burin in order to create the areas which will retain the ink transferred onto paper when the artist , again, by hand, presses the paper onto the inked surface.

We see a structure in which variation seems to occur based on an algorithm and not chance, sometimes unexpectedly similar to Op-Art, creating a barren, but intricate three dimensional landscape. These are images existing in a potential state everywhere in nature, only it is the artist who has revealed them, transformed them into something that can be called art.