PHOTOPOLYMER GRAVURE PRINTS IN BOXED SETS

"Kiwi Leaf" 2014 Cherie Porter Blackwell, photopolymer gravure,
HDR imaging on Nikon D800

I am producing a boxed set of twenty hand-pulled, photopolymer gravure prints for release in late 2014.  These prints feature my original, HDR photography on the Nikon D800 with a botanical and rural farmland themes.  Using Toyobo photopolymer etching plates and the seminal digital negative process developed by Mark Nelson, the photo images are reproduced on the etching plate from a large-scale contact negative.  We are using a hand-blended mixture of etching inks to achieve over 31 step of tonal gradation on fine art printmaking papers pulled through Conrad, French American and other etching presses.  The print work is being accomplished at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, California and at the studios of Nancy Diessner in Boston, MA.  I am also looking forward to working with Mark Nelson again this fall when he returns to the San Francisco Bay Area for workshops in the photopolymer and platinum palladium processes.