Artists: Gail Owen

Gail Owen is a NE Portland artist inspired by the flora/fauna found on her Concordia neighborhood walks. The artist turns flower motifs into interlocking pattern prints which are hand sewn together onto a larger piece of paper. Linoleum reduction prints are a multi-color print in which the separate colors are printed from the same block at different stages. The block is “reduced” by carving the areas which the artist wants to print the second color, and so forth. Reduction printing, as opposed to printing from multiple blocks, is that once the first color is printed, the linoleum block basically cut away. The workmanship and individual focus of these print ‘editions’ makes them each one-of-a-kind works of art.