"Lake Winnipeg" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print New England Patriots Unframed Monoprint on Paper

Unframed Monoprint on Paper

He learned to sail at an early age at Aldeburgh under the weathered eye of an old fisherman and local character called Jimbo

His work is done with a palette knife

he has lived on the Outer Cape since 1999

I try to capture the Drama of a scene and tell a story

"Lake Winnipeg" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print New England Patriots Unframed Monoprint on Paper22" X 29" Unframed Woodcut on Paper Gordon Mortensen (b. 1938, American) is one of the best known reduction woodcut print artists working in the U. S today. He works from watercolor studies to understand the color dynamics needed for the woodcut. The artist uses up to sixty four colors and takes as long as three months to create the woodblock image. Although the final outcome has a painterly feel, it is unmistakably a woodcut with rich layered colors