Chris Stewart

Charcoal, gel medium, gesso on paper. Charcoal, gesso and gel medium on woven paper.  Created in Tyler, Texas in July and August of 2010

Unique non-editioned woodblock prints on Japanese paper mounted on masonite board and found objects. Assembled in Tyler, Texas in Spring of 2010

Unique non-editioned woodblock prints on Japanese paper mounted on masonite board and found objects. Assembled in Tyler, Texas in Spring of 2010

Unique non-editioned woodblock prints on Japanese paper mounted on masonite board and found objects. Assembled in Tyler, Texas in December 2009

Unique non-editioned woodblock prints on Japanese paper decoupage onto masonite board. Printed and assembled in Tyler, Texas summer and fall 2009

Unique non-editioned woodblock prints on Japanese paper. Printed in Tyler, Texas fall of 2008 and spring 2009.

Produced in June and July in Florence, Italy in 2007 at the Santa Reparata printmaking studio. “Ars de Geometria” refers to an approach to art during the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance periods where artisan utilized symmetry of mathematical and geometric forms to derive a understanding or deeper meaning of the natural world they were attempting to represent.

Each image is a unique non-editioned woodblock print. For each piece I’ve incorporated multiple hand carved woodblocks each consisting of a single simple, and occasionally not so simple, geometric pattern. The printing process consists of the inking of a carved woodblock and transferring or making an inked impression of that block onto a sheet of Japanese paper. This process is repeated, each time overlaying a different colored cut block pattern on top of the previously inked impression. The process allows me to explore the colors, textures and patterns that is the unique and subtle language of the woodblock print.