Tree ring prints

 

The unique tree ring impressions I hand print reveal the hidden beauty of a trees life.

​The blocks used to create the prints are cut from already fallen trees. I transform the tree sections into printing blocks by first planning and sanding the surface flat before carefully exposing the ring formations with fire. 

Ink is rolled onto the block before the paper is aligned and placed onto the blocks surface. Using the back of a spoon, pressure is carefully applied over the paper transferring the impression from the block to the paper.

I not only believe these prints have an artistic and aesthetic value but that they hold an important role in archiving and recording a trees existence. I undertake commissions to remember fallen loved trees, please visit the contact page for further details. 

Being natural forms the blocks can distort, crack or split over time which can add to the shape and patten of the blocks shape and the tree rings design sometimes in dramatic fashion and are therefore kept and included in the prints until the blocks become unworkable. 

 

Each print is an original and all are unique.

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print shop: fishtree.sumupstore.com

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