‘prints with live plants’ at Glass Growers Gallery, a gallery in Erie, Pennsylvania, a retail store and gallery next door to the Erie Art Museum is where you can find works from my collection of printed plants with tannin.
To visit the gallery ~ Link to Glass Growers Gallery, Erie, PA
You can follow this link to find more about me and my connection to Erie and read about my recent show ‘invitation to shift’ at Glass Growers Gallery or read excerpts below
‘live plants’
Artist statement for the collection of prints using live plants and their tannins on display at Glass Growers in Erie Pennsylvania
In this series, I used the essence of plants as a printing tool, their shape, tannin, intricate patterns, textures and their naturally grounding energy. On a traditional letterpress, I incorporated fresh grasses and herbs and occasionally leaves with inks to reveal their natural wonders on paper. The tannin, a naturally brown in hue, released as they were run through the press creating their wild and artistic contributions. The paper is BFK Reeves cotton.
~ Karin Edgett
My story begins in Erie Pennsylvania. I received a BFA from Edinboro University and then moved to Washington DC. After a short career as a graphic designer, I began an advertising agency that I sold after 20 years. I was also a foster parent and worked to support small businesses in the Capitol Hill community. Post-advertising, I invented a wrist-band that monitors sun exposure with some NASA scientists, and also became a certified ‘nutritional’ cook, both of which had taken me around the world on some very interesting adventures. Currently, I teach cooking techniques and blog recipes I create that I feel will help others. I have also become steeped in visionary ideas and focused on my deep passion for creating art.
My paintings have allowed me to shift into new patterns, new dimensions, shifts in consciousness. My creative process is an unfolding of my need to change, something calling me always just outside my current frame of reference. I find it comforting whenever I am feeling out of alignment that I can paint my way into a new understanding, however it appears. Poetic words, often haiku, are used throughout my artistic expressions to deepen the experience.
The article below was from a previous show in January 2020 featuring my abstract works.
For those of you closer to the East Coast, please contact me for a private gallery tour in my home. I am located in Washington DC.
2020 Abstract Art Show feature in the Erie Times News