From Fairy Tales to Barns and Storms, silk screen with hand tinting

Today we’re looking at the work of featured artist Jess Richter! Jess is a printmaker working primarily in silkscreen and intaglio, exploring Eastern European heritage and the events of WWII. Her works used layered patterns and images to create a cryptic feeling.  

Jess' gallery of works from Displaced

Many of these cryptic, layered prints have a vintage feel, particularly where Jess uses gold or silver leafing, and hand tinting to lend an aged effect to the existing print. The basis for many of her prints seem to be old photographs, in particular photographs of her grandparents. The way she obscures these images with printing techniques and embellishments adds to their mystery and appeal.

In the Bleak Midwinter, UB silkscreen, ink

In her Displaced series, Jess uses horses as a recurring motif, often obscured by pattern and other sketched elements. The artist’s titles are long and mysterious, and could be song lyrics, or bits of prose or poetry.

You've Got a Place Called Home November 1958, UV silkscreen, silver leaf, varnish, acrylic paint