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Gallipolis Ferry WV United States
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As a printmaker I try to create works in the tradition of the painterly print. Sometimes the work resembles Impressionist or Expressionist painting in style. At the moment my focus is in monotype and monoprint techniques, both in terms of practice and the study of its history in the United States and Europe. I also have studied and am interested in exploring Collagraph printmaking. My experience in etching and screen printing is quite limited, though there are techniques and methods I plan to pursue in these areas as well.
Printmaking is no different than any other medium in terms of the nature of an artist's goals. I am always researching, trying to emulate various techniques and to learn from them to improve my own awareness. Art should strike the viewer, make you question, inspire people and even facilitate the learning process beyond art itself.
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John Timothy Robinson is a traditional, mainstream citizen and holds a Regent’s Degree. He minored in Studio Art: Printmaking. John is also a ten-year educator for Mason County Schools in Mason County, WV. He is a published poet with seventy-four literary works appearing in fifty-two journals and websites since August 2016 in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. In Printmaking, his primary medium is Monotype and Monoprint process with interest in collagraph, lithography, etching and nature prints. John also has an interest in photography and collage art.
Published work;
“A Grotesque” appears in The Diagram Issue 16.6 2016.
“Red Triumph with Daffodils” was published in The Tishman Review 2017.
“Gold Fusion” first appeared in New England Review 2017.
“Golden Bridge 1,” “The Cook,” “Crying Woman” (block image), “Religious Figure 1,” “Orchard Keeper,” “War Face,” “Candle,” “Iris” (after Ayres Magenta 1), “Pioneer Cabin” (photo) and “Old Car; Mt. Carmel Ridge” (photo) first appeared in New Plains Review print and online 2017.
“Blue Abstract” first appeared at Inscape Journal of Brigham Young University 2017.
“Leaf Image” was published in Twyckenham Notes 2018.
“Synapse Tree” first appeared in Mud Season Review 2018.
“Coral I” first appeared in Packingtown Review, Issue 11, winter 2018.
“Latent Heart,” “Color Abstract in Pastel Tones,” “Color Field,” “Violet Field Action Painting” and “Golden Bridge” were first published in Empty Mirror in 2018.
“Cups Design,” “Golden Bridge 4,” “Still Life; Objects on Table plate photo,” “Pool at the Edge of the Mountain,” “Sphere and Rectangle,” “The Magic Circle” and “Transforming” first appeared in aamora: An International blog for artists, photographers and writers in 2018.
“Golden Bridge (red sky 1-5 10-4-2011” was first published at Wise Review 2018.
“Still life; Objects on Table” (blue chair, orange wall) first appeared in Duende 2018.
“Brick Image” and “The Outhouse” (photos) were first published at Reservoir Journal 2018.
“Transform to Lesser Fade” and “Crying Woman” (b/w) first appeared online at Thirteenth Nerve 2018.
Essays on Printmaking;
“An Aesthetic for Printmaking” was accepted at Empty Mirror in 2018.
Artist Statement for Printmaking;
For me, the only valid printmaking today is the process-oriented, research approach. I have an interest in the idea of the painterly print. Approaching printmaking as a student consistently renews itself and often incorporates much of what we presently know about printmaking through study of the larger, international historical context. Knowing past techniques and methods has also enabled us to come to greater awareness of the varied cultural origins of those methods as well as a greater sense of the nature of art and life for the given individual. This is only possible to know through careful study of past printmakers and artists, their methods and techniques, their innovations and thoughtful insights on art and process. Printmaking can be executed as a single medium or can incorporate multiple mediums at once. "An Aesthetic for Printmaking" sets forth my beliefs as a practicing printmaker today.
Contact: jtrobinson@k12.wv.us
John Timothy Robinson
8869 Five Mile Road
Gallipolis Ferry, WV 25515