Kyle Hawley takes on the often hush-hush topic of Motherhood to unfold the tools of that calling imbued with the range of inherent emotive colors. Using mono-printing techniques, Hawley prints directly from cloth utility accessories and garments that she designed and created to assist in mothering.
Read MoreThe Texas Prairie. Where does it exist? Did the city take it, pave it, and replant it? The very words conjure images of air, space, and unfenced vastness. Erika Huddleston has been drawn to preserved prairies and what she can find there to draw and paint.
Read MoreFlatbed is excited to announce the publication of Annalise Gratovich’s newest woodcut in her series “Villagers Carrying Things from Home.” This woodcut was created in the unique method of adding color by printing hand-dyed chine collé elements into the life-sized woodcut, and is the seventh Villager woodcut in her planned series of eight. Only seven impressions were printed in the edition.
Read MoreCardinal, David Everett’s newest woodcut, is a familiar bird to us in Central Texas and its range is broad across the United States. Its color catches our eye, and its loud call arrests our attention. To some indigenous tribes the cardinal, which mates for life, is considered a “matchmaker.”
Read MoreIn 2023, Sullivan developed two images at Flatbed to become polymer gravure etchings. First was the image of “Box” 1, a hand-drawn skeletal probing of the space of a simple box. He had drawn this image with a certain hand-carved reed dipped a sepia-toned ink. The second was Popular Mechanics 8 + 3, a diptych intaglio image based on Sullivan's landscape drawings which are on sheets from a Popular Mechanics magazine printed with the raised-dot patterns of Braille. The images though starkly different from each other, share Sullivan’s search for the unseen.
Read MoreIt was 1973 in Terlingua, Texas and photographer Peter Leighton captured a moment of Willie Nelson’s performance during a tumultuous night set. He discovered it years later, restored the film negative, and is working with Flatbed to create a very limited polymer photogravure edition.
Read MoreWe are proud to announce our fifth publication with Melissa Miller! The color linocut published this year is titled Walrus. It is the first of a series of linocuts Miller intends to create. Walrus features not only a Walrus but other animals of the Arctic.
Read More“The Six” was Lance Letscher’s third print to be published at Flatbed in 2020. The print which measures 45” x 31” is a dazzling image that combines drypoint linear constructs with color fields.
Read MoreFlatbed is very pleased to announce the release of the two newest editions in Annalise Gratovich’s ongoing series of eight, Carrying Things From Home. The two new images titled, The Mother and The Undertaker are the fifth and sixth life-size woodcuts by the first generation Texas artist, representing life and hope, death and loss.
Read MoreLance Letsche’s past printmaking experience and love of the intaglio process and mark making on copper has inspired a body of intaglio works created as co-publications with Flatbed Press.
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