Meet Kim
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Why Reveal
My purpose in creating Reveal Print Studio is to provide a beautiful, fully equipped studio for myself and a place for printmakers to connect, collaborate, teach and use equipment that they may not have access to otherwise.
Reveal will also be a place where members of the larger community can take classes, learn many forms of printmaking and return to the studio to grow in skill and artistry.
The matrix where the image is made, be it wood, metal, linoleum, or otherwise is created with the image in reverse. As a printmaker, your own perception is altered and surrendered to the process to some degree when you are creating the matrix.
Then this matrix, inked and with the paper it will be printed on, must pass through a press to be created. As it passes through the press, it is not visible to the printmaker and subject to the settings chosen for the press, the delicacy of the ink, the paper, even the temperature in the room. Often what is 'revealed' as the print is lifted off the matrix is something more than what was planned.
The Magic
The creation of a print edition can be a physically demanding, conceptually challenging, skill-driven process. It can also be light and full of whimsy. The design can be fully developed at the start or changed at every stage. My work includes multi-plate color reduction woodcut, linocut, photopolymer plate, monotype, etching and engraving.
I use many different kinds of carving tools, stencils and often more than one matrix (surface) as I work towards multiple layers, sometimes as many as a dozen, in a single print.
The Process
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Printmaking has sometimes been categorized as a lesser art form due to its capacity for reproduction. To couch the diverse world of handmade prints in this way is inaccurate, and a great disservice to the art and craft involved in making even one print. Though creating multiples of a print for an archival edition can be a choice for a printmaker, no two are ever exactly the same when they are hand-made.
The choice for the 'matrix' of a print can be almost anything; wood, linoleum, plexiglass, screens, photopolymer plate, paper, etc. Anything that can inked well can be printed; including the inside of milk cartons and tree stumps!
Many famous painters were also printmakers. Albrecht Durer, Picasso, Rembrandt, Goya, Matisse and Mary Cassat are just a few of the world class artists that incorporated printmaking.
In the last 20 years, printmaking has benefitted from a surge in renewed interest. It fulfills a contemporary longing for things that are handmade, forged and created using sometimes complex and time-consuming processes over months.
Printmaking:
A quick history
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