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The Living Gallery is featuring four of our original printmakers this month as we celebrate our 5 year anniversary.

Creating an original print is a total artist-involved process, from start to finish, usually resulting in monotypes, monoprints, or limited editions.

Michael Guerriero, of Northern California, is a master printer of serigraphs, (commonly known as silkscreen). This is a stencil method of printmaking, where colored inks are separately squeegeed through a screen onto the paper below. "I choose landscape images for their ability to capture my excitement for natural beauty."

Betty MacDonald, David Ladmore, and Amy Adshead each produce etchings.

Etching was first used by artists in the early sixteenth century. It is an "intaglio" process where the lines and tonal areas of the image lie below the surface of a metal plate. When the ink is applied to the plate and wiped off, it remains in the incised lines. The plate is then printed under pressure onto a dampened paper.

MacDonald resides in McLean, VA Her works are part of numerous public and private collections worldwide, including The American Cultural Center, New Delhi, India, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The White House, Washington, DC.

Adshead has been a professional printmaker since 1979. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and worked in the exhibits department of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. In 1977, she moved to rural New Mexico to build a house and concentrate on printmaking full-time.

Ladmore, born and raised in England, lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where he also teaches. "My work is a response to the beauty and Simplicity of the things I find around me. In figure and landscape, careful study reveals the undercurrents and rhythms of existence. It is an irresistible force."

Through each artist's work, we are invited into their respective personal experience of seeing the world.