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Matt Brown lives
in Lyme, New Hampshire with his wife Elizabeth,
sons Nathaniel and Asher, and a border collie named
Emma. After graduating
from college Matt worked for 15 years as a
carpenter, but now makes his living designing,
printing and selling woodblock prints. Matt
writes: " ...my
print-making career seems very much the fruit of my
carpentry years. Learning to work with wood, to
measure, to line things up and judge by eye; to
assess a design problem: was this not an
apprenticeship of a sort for an artist? Now my
materials are wooden blocks and paper, lines,
shapes and colors, but it still feels like the same
process of visualizing something, analyzing it into
parts, putting it together, making changes, going
to bed and attacking it in a new way in the
morning." Matt's current
'Big Art Project' is being involved in the growth
of his family. Matt's involvement in family life is
an obvious influence on his choice of subjects and
brings a warmth to his art. Woodblock
Printing in the United States using the Japanese
Method The woodblock
prints are made using the traditional moku hanga
method. This method of color woodblock printing was
developed in Japan during the 18th
century. Water, rice
paste, and pure pigments are the printing
materials; brushes and a hand-held baren are the
printing tools. Each color is printed from a
separate carved solid wood block. This printmaking
technique was first practised in the United States
by Arthur Dow and others as part of the Arts and
Crafts movement that flourished at the beginning of
the 20th century. "Thinking of it
as essentially watercolor printing I have found a
wide range of both Western and Japanese artists
helpful in my struggles with pictorial issues.
These include many of the Impressionists, Van Gogh,
Mary Cassatt, Whistler, Homer and others who were
influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e prints during the
nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries." The eCards shown
above as well as other original artwork are
available at Matt Brown's site and online Art
Gallery at http://www.ooloopress.com Matt Brown can be
reached by email at: matt@ooloopress.com |
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