printmaking

Making a perfect impression: the patience and persistence of printmaking

Winner of the 2023 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize, Auckland illustrator and printmaker Alba Gil Celdran favours Japanese tools, techniques, and materials to create her prints. She carves her original designs on a linoleum plate and makes impressions on Awagami washi paper using a baren rather than a press. The highly skillful process takes patience and persistence to master, and results in limited edition series of each design.

Danilo R Reyes, danilorreyesart.felt.co.nz

“My voice when I couldn’t use mine.” The spiracular art and visual language of Danilo R Reyes

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Moving to New Zealand from Colombia at the age of 16, Danilo R Reyes couldn’t speak a word of English. Struggling to communicate with his peers through language, he found familiarity, communication, and connection in art, igniting a passion for drawing and printmaking. He draws inspiration for his mesmerising artworks from his experiences as a refugee, his culture, and Pre-Columbian art.

The feeling of a place: a love for the outdoors captured in print

Sally-Mae Hudson of Shapes by Sal is a self-taught linocut printmaker, discovering the art form nearly three years ago. Sally’s appreciation for the great outdoors and the natural environment underpins the majority of her work. Her work is as much about inspiring others to appreciate the natural world, as it is her own artistic expression. Sally currently works part-time for WAI Wanaka, an environmental organisation where she is part of a Jobs for Nature field team.