"Wild Grape" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodcut Print lakeside an accomplished painter

an accomplished painter

New York City

however I am also inspired by my surroundings and paint the natural beauty of the New England coastline where I live

25" x 31" Framed

Very little is know about this Canadian born artist

"Wild Grape" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodcut Print lakeside an accomplished painter32" x 24" 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