Vitreographs:
Fine art glass lithography prints
by award-winning botanical illustrator and author Peter Loewer
Vitreography: Hand-pulled prints using glass plates instead of stone.
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Vitreographs:
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Educational Presentations with Peter Loewer On the Green Road with Tosca and Forest The Botanical Gardens Smithsonian Archive of American Gardens |
Series I: Botanic WanderingsSince late 2003 I've worked with Judith O'Rourke, Master Printmaker, on two print editions using the process of glass lithography known as vitreography and developed by Harvey Littleton. The first edition of ten prints was finished on Wednesday, May 7, 2003, entitled Botanic Wanderings, and represents my preoccupations with plant forms in particular and botany in general. The images measure 4 1/2 X 6 inches.
The images above include at left a study of an "Aging Datura" blossom (Brugsmansia spp.), originally a light peach color but with age fading to a dull white. At center is a "Cotton Boll" found blowing along the edge of a field outside of Greenwood, South Carolina. The image at right is a "Wild Palm" representing the results of sketching a shattered palm trunk on a January afternoon along the Gulf Coast on a beach at Marco Island.
The image above is called "Living On the Palm" and salutes the various plant forms, from orchids to ferns, that often survive a precarious existence clutching to the bark of this and other monumental palm trees--or even palm saplings.
The images above include, at left, a root that fell in such a manner on our garden path that it appeared to be moving on to better fields.At center is a spring tulip, opening its petals like a diva ready to perform. At the right, a Gulf palm seems to slightly spear the rising moon.
Above is a "Japanese Chestnut" (of unknown species), opening up its cellulose robe, festooned with fibers, in an oriental manner.
The image at left is an opening wild chestnut of an unknown species while the orange chestnut at the right is an opened shell that reveals its inner valves in such a way that the finder can look through organic forms to see an artificial orange shape beyond.
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