BROOKE MORRISON (1979-2013)
"Handmade Hearts"
Rare 3D Embossed Collagraph
Collagraphy is a printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard, paperboard, wood or metal). The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing.
Collagraph prints are beautiful in the amount of fine detail they can communicate. Different tonal effects and vibrant colors can be achieved with the technique due to the depth of relief and differential inking that results from the collagraph plate’s highly textured surface.
Excellent condition. Professionally Matted and Framed
Large -- 30" x 27" (see photos)
Excellent, Near Pristine Condition
Original vintage frame still shows very well.
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Brooke Morrison
Morrison is a talented designer as well as painter, printmaker and commercial artist. Her designs can be found on wallpaper, dinnerware, fabric and stationery created by prominent national and foreign companies.She is also an artistic entrepreneur. Over a relatively short time, she has created a vast market through which she sells her prints.
Brooke Morrison, a native of Utah, graduated from the University of Utah with an FA degree in Fine Arts. After a diverse and extensive training in art, she chose to specialize in printmaking. Her focus is with silkscreen, collography, etching, and embossing techniques. She combines the skills of the artist, craftsman, and chemist, using methods which have changed very little since the first etchings. Brooke hand tints each etching, uniquely setting it apart from the typical print. It is because of this versatility and capacity for pure expression that she finds these types of media particularly exciting. She is continually conscious of the use of pattern in her work. "Everything is either a negative or a positive form. Pattern in not a boring repetition; it is rhythms and intervals; it is staggering the tensions. This is what makes art exciting." Brooke Morrison's work is currently on display in many galleries all over the US.
Finding success in the visual arts appears to be hereditary. Morrison's mother, Dawna Barton, has been a popular watercolorist for more than 20 years. Her aunt, Helen Paul, is also a renowned artist. Her brother and two sisters - Ken, Jill and Linn - are not only active as individual artists but also run the family's five art-related businesses
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