He created prints from a large variety of trees, of which the oldest was a fallen 200-year-old chestnut tree once planted by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Some of his other sculptures include Twins (2000), a bronze cast of two conjoined saplings, and Blow Down (2002), a skinned and flattened spruce tree mounted on a wall.The wood, mostly northern white pine and hemlock was cut from the property and milled to my specification at a wood mill right up the street. I not only create objects but love collecting objects, these two practices result in a studio that is visually overloaded. Thinking about the print making techniques I am employing in the artist’s book making project, using nature to make prints, this work is highly relevant. So when I speak of,” beyond the landscape”, I am referring to your own landscape, or more simply, “it is whatever you imagine.

If there is, indeed, nothing lovelier than a tree, Connecticut-based artist Bryan Nash Gill shows us why. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Although Gill began his art career in glassblowing, ceramics and landscape drawing, he gradually turned to sculpture. Creating large-scale relief prints from the cross sections of trees, the artist reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. I was drawn to the different sizes of logs and tree cuts he uses to print from and how much detail he encapsulates into the result. 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.

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. He is printing over a period of time and you can see and feel the slight changes in the texture or mushrooms growing on it. 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.BNG: After finding a worthy subject, I plane and sand the printing surface,” baby bottom” smooth, raise the grain, seal the wood and begin to print. 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.

Gill found that things were more beautiful and complex inside than what was visible from the outside. 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. Earlier stints include the American Film Institute, Clinton-Gore White House, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.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. GemmaSchiebeFineArt II Continuing my artistic education and recording my time throughout my second year as a BA (Hons) Fine Art Student at Cardiff Metropolitan University – “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. The notecards are well-presented on recycled paper with attractive packaging and I highly recommend them to anyone interested in trees and / or woodcuts.