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. The nature and trees around him have always been an creational source for him, not only are they beautiful from the outside at but also when you try to investigate a look inside. Creating large-scale relief prints from the cross sections of trees, the artist reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. 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. BNG: I had a studio in New York City for a summer and had exhausted the money I received from a California drawing fellowship grant.

Like a fingerprint, each impression becomes individual, revealing a personality, a sensitivity to the skin. 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. Present on the international art scene in private and public collections, he exhibits regularly in numerous galleries in the United States.His early works were mainly abstract metal sculptures, but over time he increasingly began to work with wood instead of metal. 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.

I am often on the look-out for notecards that don't fall into any of the medium's typical expectations. Bryan Nash Gill (November 3, 1961 – May 17, 2013) was an American artist who worked primarily with wood, in the form of relief prints and sculptures. So when I speak of,” beyond the landscape”, I am referring to your own landscape, or more simply, “it is whatever you imagine. Gill has received two Connecticut Individual Artist Grants, is a California Arts Council Fellow and in 2005 he received the Artist Resource Trust, from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.A Baren made of Hornbeam, (also known as Ironwood) and a Bamboo disc baren made with a Bamboo leaf and a recycled record player dust cleaner. Earlier stints include the American Film Institute, Clinton-Gore White House, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. 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. Also featured are Gill's series of printed lumber and offcuts, such as burls, branches, knots, and scrubs.Looking closely at an individual tree’s structure and annual rings teach us about a particular species, the environment in which it grew and the occasional marks therein indicating invasive trauma.

The notecards are well-presented on recycled paper with attractive packaging and I highly recommend them to anyone interested in trees and / or woodcuts. He was profiled in Martha Stewart Living in 2012 and was the focus of a documentary video produced by the magazine. Its engagement is to understand his place in this world in this time, which he has to participate as a record of his connection to it.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. Bryan Nash Gill was born and raised in the same rural, northwestern corner of Connecticut where he works as an artist today. It was so dense and the annual growth rings were so close together that they could not be accurately counted beyond two hundred.