Linda Gourley, Printmaker
Linda Gourley, Printmaker from Dry Fork, Virginia creates fantastical, whimsical and magical hand-colored etchings, collographs, and chine colle, along with collages of textiles, ink colors and hand made papers. Rainforests, gardens filled with spirituality, and imaginary fairytale kingdoms are subjects often explored with humor and delight.
Linda Gourley
Linda Gourley uses a variety of printmaking techniques, including hand-colored etching, collography, and chine colle, along with collaging textiles, ink colors, and hand made papers to create fantastic and whimsical prints.
Inventing innocent and simple human and animal forms, Gourley’s works represent humorous and magical situations set in rainforests, gardens filled with spirituality, and imaginary fairytale kingdoms.
The contrasting qualities of such elaborate artistic technique combined with Gourley’s naive and child-like characters produce a vitality of expression unique in style and content.
