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Skinny Dipper
Monique Wales · 3 works in this exhibition
- MediumReductive Linocut Relief
- Image size40 x 27 cm
- Edition4 of 29
- Year2023
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About the artist
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Monique works primarily as a relief printmaker with a focus on reductive linocut relief. Largely self-taught, she credits her style to being blissfully unaware of what the perceived limitations of her medium might be. Her work is most often characterized by dozens of layers of transparent color, tight registration and a texture and depth achieved through precise and delicate carving.Unabashedly nature-inspired, Monique%u2019s subjects reflect her life in the Sierras, as well as her travels throughout the West and abroad. Her work imparts an awareness of the importance of wild spaces and an appreciation of species and habitat diversity. She strives to imbue her work with the feelings of peacefulness, serenity and wonder she experiences when observing the natural world.Monique%u2019s relief prints and etchings can be found in private collections throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe, as well as several museum collections. Her work has garnered numerous honors and awards, most notably the Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaker Prize at the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers at NOPE2019 and inclusion in four LYWAM Birds In Art (2023-2026) exhibitions. She is a Member of the California Society of Printmakers, an Associate Member of the Society of Animal Artists and a Member with Distinction of American Women Artists. Monique is a Certified California Naturalist.Monique is represented by A Sense of Place Fine Art in Fresno, CA, Mission Gallery in New Mexico and MESH Art Gallery in Chicago, IL. She lives and works in Oakhurst, CA just outside Yosemite National Park in a husband-and-wife-built green home / studio minutes from Yosemite.
About the artwork
This small waterfall is one of my favorites and I pass it almost daily on my dog walks. This year's extraordinary rainfall amounts have sent it into overdrive this Spring, for which I am very thankful! The little visitor is the reason for the title! Have you ever seen an Ouzel (AKA American Dipper) swimming in a turbulent stream? These 'plain brown birds' are actually amazing underwater flyers and the cutest birds ever.Yes, they earned that name with the dip, dip, dips they do on land awaiting their next swim!