Christine Style has been making prints 35+ years and in the last 15 years have focused on relief print woodcuts. She is a professor emerita after teaching printmaking and drawing at UW- Green Bay for 31 years. Style maintains a studio in Green Bay and has made large-scale prints, often printed using a steamroller since 2014. Style has a BS in Art from UW-Madison and an MFA in printmaking from UW-Milwaukee. There is retrospective book about her available at the Blurb.com bookstore. LINK
Artist Statement
My prints bounce between inventive planned representational visual stories using primarily black and white and colorful abstractions. I play with pattern and image and with the monotype on a wood matrix. I am interested in: exploring how ink, color or black and white, sets into the paper; seeing how the colors overlap; how the wood grain inherent in the wood can be used; how carved patterns can be overlapped, how chine collé can expand the paper tonal range; and how the print matrix is a vehicle for metaphor and stories . I am less interested in making large editions. I have participated in Really Big Prints since 2014 and these prints are larger – 60×30 inches. About three years ago, I started working with the laser cutter at a local makers-space and have incorporated laser cut pieces of my prints on paper as well as laser cutting and laser etching in making relief blocks.
Image information: Princess Poppy Ponders Potted Plants, steamroller relief print on pre-stained paper with chine collé 2023 49 x 30 inches Printed on Heavy weight Mulberry