2024 spitzack fort worden tree study woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino
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- Artist website (Charles Spitzack)
A 2024 study of trees at Fort Worden, the former military reservation on the Olympic Peninsula now operating as a state park and arts center in Port Townsend, Washington. The site is known for its mature evergreens and views across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the "tree study" designation indicates an observational rather than narrative composition. Tree subjects in mokuhanga benefit from the medium's capacity to render foliage through layered transparent color rather than line, with each impression building density in the canopy. The print connects Spitzack's practice to the body of work produced through the Centrum residency program at Fort Worden, where Pacific Northwest printmakers have developed sustained projects. As a study within a larger 2024 production, it functions both as a finished print and as an exercise in how a specific stand of trees translates into the carving and printing process.
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
2024 spitzack fort worden tree study woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino was created by Charles Spitzack.
2024 spitzack fort worden tree study woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino depicts trees.
