Block Printmaker Brown

        This little wood block print is one of the pieces in my own collection.  I bought it from a small gallery in New Hampshire about twenty years ago and really love its quiet simplicity.  The artist, Matt Brown, works primarily in the Japanese hanga method making multi-block color wood block prints, so this black and white piece is fairly unusual for him.  Just a lucky break for me that he decided to make something so perfect for my taste!

        Of course, his color wood block prints are lovely, too, mostly landscapes of mountains and ocean.  Here’s one of my favorites, with lots of monochromatic, low-contrast colors.  If you’re going to go with color, may as well make it something that black and white can’t do!

        And here’s the digest of other B printmakers I’ve featured:

Barlach, Ernst

Baskin, Leonard

Beltrán, Alberto

Berry, Carroll Thayer

Bewick, Thomas

Birdsall, Byron

Blair, Susan

Bold, Alan (and here)
Bowen, Betsy

Brender à Brandis, Gerard

von Bresslern-Roth, Norbertine

Brigham, Neil

Brown, Peter

Bryan, Ashley

[Pictures: House @Isleford, woodblock print by Matt Brown, before 1996;

Moon over Mt. Desert Island, 2nd State, color woodblock print by Brown (Image from Matt Brown Woodblock Prints).]

A-Z Challenge, all posts for the letter B