Hand Papermaking

The Art of Pulp Painting

This collaborative portfolio book features the artwork of 17 artists who created distinctive handmade paper works utilizing paper pulp as a painting medium. To create a pulp painting, specially prepared pulps are applied to a freshly made sheet of handmade paper in a number of ways, including the use of stencils or freehand. The result is a finished sheet of paper that fully incorporates the image.

Tom Bannister, Executive Director of the press used to produce The Art of Pulp Painting, said: “The jury for this portfolio selected entries that demonstrate the equal importance of visual image and well-made paper. Working with a wide variety of fibers and all manner of implements from common stencils and shaped deckles to obscure dental tools, the selected artists explore some familiar themes (abstracted nature, vessel forms, spiritual issues) and also investigate the strange and unfamiliar (Fibonacci numbers, microscopy, carnivorous plants).”

Artist: Collaborative Work
Press: Hand Papermaking
Date: 2005
Number and Edition: 48 of 150
Size: 9” x 11.75”

Innovative Printmaking on Handmade Paper

This juried collection features 20 distinctive prints made from handmade paper. Numerous printing methods are represented, including traditional, contemporary and innovative (e.g., printing from part of a saxophone). Techniques include etching, woodblock, chine collè, linocut, digital inkjet, silkscreen, monotype, lithography, pochoir, aquatint and letterpress.

The handmade paper is inherent in the artwork. The paper techniques include watermarking, pulp painting, double couching, and overbeating, with fibers such as cotton, linen, abaca, hemp, kozo, flax and sea grass.

Artists in the portfolio include Lynn Amlie and Jon Lee, Denise Brady, Frank Brannon, Carmon Colangelo and Rick Johnson, Steven Daiber, Evelyn David and Melanie Yazzie, Georgia Deal, Amanda Degener and Susan Nees, Stephen Fredericks and Megan Moorhouse, Jean Gumpper and Tom Leech, Susan Mackin-Dolan, Roberto Mannino, Margaret Prentice, John Risseeuw, Lee Running, Joe Sanders, Shawn Sheehy, Giselle Simon, Peter Sowiski, Lynn Sures and Cynthia Thompson.

Artist: Collaborative Work
Press: Hand Papermaking
Date: 2003
Number and Edition: 49 of 150
Size: 9” x 11.75”

Watermarks in Handmade Paper: Modern and Historic

This juried collection features 17 watermarked sheets of handmade paper, each in a protective folder imprinted with the artist’s name. Numerous techniques are represented, including light-and-shade, wire, stencil, photo silkscreen and puffy paint. Five of the sheets were formed on historic moulds, and 12 are contemporary papers designed and produced especially for the edition. The folders have a die-cut opening on both sides, allowing light to shine through the piece without removing it from its enclosure.

The portfolio includes works by the following artists: Shannon Brock, Wendy Cain, Kathryn and Howard Clark, Fabriano Papermill, Paul Denhoed, Dard Hunter III, Rick Johnson, Kristin Kavanagh, Tom Leech, Katie MacGregor and Bernie Vinzani, Brian Queen, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Mina Takahashi, Peter Thomas, Cynthia Thompson and Gangolf Ulbricht.

Artist: Collaborative Work
Press: Hand Papermaking
Date: 2002
Number and Edition: 34 of 150
Size: 9” x 11.75”