Jack Botsford

Artist's Statement:

My Goal is to observe and communicate scenes which I think are beautiful or interesting. These are often details from nature and I prefer to begin with a pencil or pen and ink sketch. I am drawn to printmaking because of the mystery or serendipity which the translation into a print often brings to the process. I select the printmaking medium which I think fits the nature of the image and proceed from there.

Education

Memorial University - Division of Continuing Education/Lifelong Learning
Portrait Sketching in Pencil (Julie Whalen) 2007
Introduction to Watercolour (Julia Pickard) c. 1996
Drawing Level II (Jay Barry) 1991
Introduction to Drawing (Jay Barry) 1990
Other courses
Printing Wood Engravings 2008 (Jan Elsted  Barbarian Press)
a one-day course hosted by the Letterpress Association
St. Michael s Printshop Multi-session, Day or Weekend-long printmaking courses were completed between 1986 and 2008, and include:
Lithography (Bill Ritchie), Linocut (David Umholtz), Etching (Nik Kokas), Monoprint (Anna Susanne Schultz)
Lithography (Mike Connolly), Collograph (Sylvia Bendza), Drypoint (Sue Gordon), Collograph (Navarana Igliotore)
Japanese Woodblock (Elspeth Lamb), Wood Engraving (George Walker), Etching - The Plate as a Sculptural Object  (Colin Lyons)
Doing artwork regularly at St. Michael s Printshop since 1995,

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Selected Exhibitions:

Special Portfolios:

2001  The Puffin Portfolio  St. Michael s Printshop (edition of 20/artist)
2002  Flowers for Valentines Portfolio  St. Michael s Printshop
2002, 2005, 2008 - St. Michael s Printshop Playing Card Project

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