Bonnie de Arteaga | wood cut, chine collé

Putting words and pictures together in meaningful ways has been the work of most of Bonnie de Arteaga's career - throughout her education in fine art at UW-Madison, employment in graphic design, commercial print management and public relations.

It was her good fortune to learn intaglio printing in the 1960s at the University of Wisconsin - Madison during a flourishing of the print arts. In 1997 she returned to full time fine printmaking at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. There she explored intaglio, woodcuts and digital imagery. In the past ten years her work has appeared in national and international exhibitions and invitationals. She works out of her print studio at Main Street Art Works in Hilbert, Wisconsin.

Her woodcuts begin as ink drawings. She scans them, manipulates the images by computer, and transfers then to birch plywood. The drawings are then cut with traditional woodcut as well as electric tools. The blocks are inked traditionally and printed on her Conrad etching press. American artists, Jim Dine and Judy Pfaff, and the Japanese and American abstract expressionists of the 1970s are major influences on her work.

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