Artist Profile • Village Galleries Maui


Linda Whittemore• Village Galleries Maui

	Linda is our featured artist in our Annual Printmakers Show Nov. 30 - De. 20, 2007 Village Gallery Contemporary - 180 Dickenson Street To request images of available works: click here Above: More Pele - Triptych, 72" x 38" framed	Below: For Art’s Sake Monotype, 30” x 22”, $2,400 Artist's Statement... I started out as a painter of watercolor. Life drawing and painting of the figure and landscape have been subjects that interest me throughout my career. I studied printmaking and made etchings using Nitric Acid to bite the plates. I worked in sugar lift, relief prints, collographs and embossments. From these, I eventually explored monotypes, or maybe they chose me: I came to where I am today. I work in viscosity monotype. What you see is the result of layer upon layer of ink deposited and printed from the plate. These are somewhere between a painting and a drawing in the printmaking world. My personal impressions are here in a collection in my new work. I am excited to share them with you, the viewers. Much of my latest work is created with the added use of acrylic, Aquacolors and Lyra pencils, oil and dry pastel to the monotype after it is printed. I’m using these multiple mediums as needed, using the means to achieve an end. All these monotypes are hand printed in my studio. Paintings and monotypes, this is where it all happens! Linda Whittemore
			“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for a better understanding.” “The world would stagnate without him.. He can work in any medium. He simply has to find the gain in the work itself, not outside it.” “Whatever you feel or think, your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke. If there is interesting or reasonable sequence in your thoughts and feelings, if there is order in your progressive states of being as the paint is applied, this will show, and nothing in the world can help it from showing” “If a man has the soul of an artist he needs a mastery of all the means of expression so that he may command them, for with his soul in activity he has much to say. He runs great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and the adherence to a creed. And a member must be ever in unnecessary broil or pretend agreement which he cannot permit himself to do, for it is his principle as an art student to have and to defend his personal impressions.” From The Art Spirit/ Robert Henri
	Lynn Shue, owner/director Village Galleries… Linda Whittemore creates her stunning monoprints by carefully composing and layering her oil based inks. Her work has a quiet meditative surface. Above: Linda Whittemore Volcano - The Clearing Monotype, 30” x 22”, $2,400







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