Julie Williams - Reduction Woodcut Printmaker
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Julie Williams is a printmaker from Flagstaff, Arizona. She has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Northern Arizona University and specializes in color reduction woodcuts and handmade books and cards. She has been in numerous juried art shows and exhibitions.
Julie has received several awards for her work including Top Five of Show, People of Print, and Best of Show at the Tempe Festival of the Arts. Most recently she was awarded Honorable Mention for her piece Reverence at the Tubac Center of the Arts Impressions exhibit in early 2021. Her work is also included in permanent public and private collections across the country.
“ Woodcutting pulls me back in and helps me try to capture the good feeling of witnessing something so beautiful it settles in my heart. I fell in love with the surprise of the image that greeted me every time I cut away a new piece of wood and ran a sheet of paper through the printing process.” - Julie Williams
Relief printmaking, also known as suicide printmaking, is a process in which you create an image by printing off the surface of a wood-block and removing the areas you do not wish to print. Color reduction printing is a method of relief printing where you print light to dark colors in progression removing the areas of wood in which you want to keep a certain color. In this way you produce layers of color which create the image.
Learn more about Julie's artwork in an article in the Noise magazine featuring her and David Williams (her husband and fellow printmaker!).
Julie has received several awards for her work including Top Five of Show, People of Print, and Best of Show at the Tempe Festival of the Arts. Most recently she was awarded Honorable Mention for her piece Reverence at the Tubac Center of the Arts Impressions exhibit in early 2021. Her work is also included in permanent public and private collections across the country.
“ Woodcutting pulls me back in and helps me try to capture the good feeling of witnessing something so beautiful it settles in my heart. I fell in love with the surprise of the image that greeted me every time I cut away a new piece of wood and ran a sheet of paper through the printing process.” - Julie Williams
Relief printmaking, also known as suicide printmaking, is a process in which you create an image by printing off the surface of a wood-block and removing the areas you do not wish to print. Color reduction printing is a method of relief printing where you print light to dark colors in progression removing the areas of wood in which you want to keep a certain color. In this way you produce layers of color which create the image.
Learn more about Julie's artwork in an article in the Noise magazine featuring her and David Williams (her husband and fellow printmaker!).
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