Artist’s Statement

Michelle Black is an experimental printmaker who collaborates with nature to create art that reflects her connection to the landscape. Her work is diverse, incorporating data, history, and environmental processes at times, while allowing the landscape to guide her creativity at others. She sometimes uses unconventional printmaking techniques and materials influenced by natural elements, such as ocean-printed cyanotypes created with sun, sand, salt, and sea; collagraphs or monoprints using earth or river sediment; and impressions from vegetation through cyanotype, collagraph or ecoprint. These are often complemented by traditional relief printing.