Holly Downing Art

Many Fans by a.muse, 2017 is 15" x 11" -- an original print, dated, titled, signed recto (on front) by artist. An intaglio printmaking process (made on an etching press), the 1/1 w...

Medium: Etching,Aquatint Image size: 12 × 11 Sheet size: 22 × 18 in Edition of 30 Year: 2008 Signed and titled by the artist While inspired by flowers, the blossom series shows th...

Nicole Dikon lives and works between Oahu and Mississippi. Her work spans various media and practices, including woodcut printmaking, writing poetry, maki...

Nicole Dikon lives and works between Oahu and Mississippi. Her work spans various media and practices, including woodcut printmaking, writing poetry, making artist books, installing edible and native gardens, and more. Dikon views her practice as a means of grounding her perspective in the principles of ecology. Born on Maui in 1989, Dikon was raised all over the Americas. As she continues to follow a nomadic path, she grounds her art practice in whatever environment she finds herself. The key to her process lies in her attempt to mimic the cycles of a natural ecosystem. Everything in the studio has value; from the scraped-up ink to the paper scraps, they all have a function that is considered and reused in the system several times before they are reused again in the waste pile for rebirth. In doing so, each image, object, and place created serves as a portal to a right relationship with the natural world, one where we acknowledge our connectedness, not through an intelligent knowing, but a visceral and intuitive awareness. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Dikon went on to earn a master's in printmaking from Temple University...

SCROLLS by the Israeli artist Moshe Castel (1909-1991) is a limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. SCROLLS is a dramatic abstract collage, its vertical arrangement depicting a grouping of yellow and gold beige papyrus scroll fragments against a textured background of rich vibrant red and black. Ancient alphabet symbols written on the parchment are visible resembling Aramaic letters which create a mystical quality evoking the biblical history of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Aramaic was once the main language of the Jews and appears in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is closely related to Hebrew with the script being very similar. In SCROLLS, Moshe Castel creates a very aesthetically appealing and captivating contemporary arrangement of ancient Jewish symbolism. Print size - 29.75 x 21.5 in. unframed, excellent condition, vivid colors, pencil signed by Moshe Castel Edition size - 150, plus proofs Year published - 1981 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY Moshe Elazar Castel born in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine, in 1909, to Rabbi Yehuda Castel and his wife Rachel. The family was descended from Spanish Jews from Castile who immigrated to the Holy Land after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Castel attended his father’s school until the age of 13. He went on to study at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem, where he was encouraged by his teacher to study in Paris furthering his art education at the Academie Julian and Ecole de Louvre in Paris. He was greatly influenced by European masters Rembrandt, Velasquez, Delacroix and Courbert after spending his days copying their works hanging in the Louvre. Castel returned to Palestine at the onset of WWII. The subject of Castel’s early paintings were scenes of Sephardic Jews in the Holy Land. In 1947, Castel helped to found the "New Horizons" (Ofakim Hadashim) group together with Yosef Zaritsky, Yehezkel Streichman...

Amsterdam I is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...

Medium: Carborundum, intaglio Year: 2007 Signed and numbered from the edition of 25 Image Size: 12 x 12 inches Paper size: 23 x 19.25 inches Signed and numbered by the artist...

Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint One plate from Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974 (D. 687-706; C. books 187) 1974 Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm Ed...

Bold black and white print by David Mar (American, 20th Century). A white lily is formed from the negative space of the print. Artist's chop in the lower left corner. Titled, numbe...

Medium: Carborundum, intaglio Year: 2007 Signed and numbered from the edition of 25 Image Size: 12 x 12 inches Paper size: 23 x 19.25 inches Signed and numbered by the artist...

Artist: Tom Marioni – American (1937- ) Title: Finger Print Year: 1991 Medium: Color soft ground etching with sugar lift aquatint, drypoint, fingerprint ...

Medium: Etching,Aquatint Image size: 12 × 11 Sheet size: 22 × 18 in Edition of 30 Year: 2008 Signed and titled by the artist While inspired by flowers, the blossom series shows th...