Inks
Featured artist: Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson is a master of noir pop art whose detailed drawings and paintings are often filled with dystopian humor, challenging the viewer to confront the absurdity of modern life.
Featured artist: Emily Boyd
Drawing a grid by hand and then meticulously filling each small square with marks is slow and quiet. The process remains significant to Claybord artist Emily Boyd as she has learned that quietness isn’t necessarily based on the noise and commotion level around us but that which is inside our hearts and minds.
Featured artist: Linda Lunnon
With a background in environmental science, Linda Lunnon has gone on to complete further studies in Natural History Illustration, where she first discovered scratchboard. Linda draws constant inspiration from the natural world, and her artwork is featured in collections in the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
Featured artist: Sally Maxwell
Sally Maxwell has been working with scratchboard for over fifty-three years and has helped to define it as a fine art medium. Finding inspiration in animals and her own colorful garden; each piece is a snapshot of the intensity that nature can possess in its quiet moments.
Featured artist: Andrea Pramuk
Andrea describes herself as an illuminator of surfaces, creating organic, drawing based abstractions. Even though she uses a simplistic subject matter and color palette, the ideas and spaces are complex and deep.
Featured artist: Jeanne Rhea
From a very early age, Jeanne Rhea thought of herself as an artist. And yet, as many do, she hesitated to call herself one. “Others should make that determination… my art should speak for itself.” It was only within the last ten years that she has felt comfortable assuming the title.
Colored inks on Scratchbord with Sally Maxwell
Texas artist, Sally Maxwell, is known for her exquisite scratchboard drawings. Her enthusiasm for the medium led her to develop techniques for using color with scratchboard over fifty years ago.
