Denise Karabinus is an artist living and working in Honolulu, Hawai’I (USA). Her approach to color is harmonized and her approach to printmaking is sculptural. Denise’s organic, transformed and layered prints are created with intaglio, woodblock, chine collé and drawing processes.

David Lopes is an artist living and working in Porto (Portugal). He often works with analogous hues in his approach to color, and his approach to printmaking is interdisciplinary. The multi-layered surfaces of his work are made through etching processes, and he also works in watercolor painting. David is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Fine Arts at Universidade do Porto, where he is also working within the faculty on a new printmaking research center, In Pure Print. David focuses his own study on photomechanical printing processes from the 19th century.

Keiko Hara was raised and educated in Japan and came to the USA to pursue her art, completing an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1976. She has lived and worked in Walla Walla, Washington, for many years. She taught art at Whitman College, Walla Walla, and also was chair of the Department of Fine Art there. Keiko’s art embraces many mediums—painting in oil and watercolor; installations using glass; and printmaking using a wide range of techniques.

Susan Belau is an artist living and working in San Francisco, California (USA). Her approach to color is a search for a secret ingredient and her approach to printmaking is methodical. Susan’s distilled, nuanced and landscape-based work is created through etching techniques and watercolor painting. Currently Susan is working on a series of small etchings which focus on public lands, suburban streetscapes, government buildings and city squares. These works play with elements in the built environment that reflect practices of privacy, barriers and navigating shared space.

Karen Lederer is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive and her approach to printmaking is experimental and painterly. Karen’s still-lifes, made with monoprinting techniques, emphasize the role of curation, artistic influence, consumerism, point-of-view and aesthetics in our daily life.

Jessie Van der Laan is an artist living and working in Knoxville, Tennessee (USA). Her approach to color involves transparent layers and her approach to printmaking is “everything in variation!”. Jessie’s layered, textured and transparent work is created with monotype, relief and screenprint printmaking techniques along with drawing, watercolor, colored pencil and fiber-based materials. Currently she is working on a series reflecting on the experience of motherhood, layering figurative elements with real and constructed landscapes.