How the prints are made
Small editions. Carved and pulled by hand. Never reprinted.
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Each print begins as a sketch in India ink, with my father's fountain pen — the fragment of an idea that will grow layer by layer. -
A reduction print is carved in stages, from a single block of linoleum. -
Ink is mixed and rolled on by hand, the block holding every colour to come. -
Each colour layer is manually pulled through the press. -
The image grows in detail and complexity with each new colour layer. -
The finished piece — Colours of New England. Every impression in the edition lives or dies with the block that made it. View the piece →
Every print is signed and numbered, and sold unframed.
When the last impression of an edition sells, the edition is closed for good — the block has been carved further or destroyed in the making, and reprints are not possible.
"I love every aspect of this challenging and rewarding process — one that still offers so much to be discovered."
Kate Goetz is a Czech-born Canadian printmaker and the founder of Blue Chisel Studio. A lifelong artist with a Fine Art degree from the University of British Columbia, she has been pulling reduction relief prints by hand since 2005.
Her work draws on two landscapes. The first is immediate — the mountains and wild country of interior British Columbia, where she lives and works. The second is inherited — the forests and folklore of the Czech Republic, where she was born.
Her work is in private collections across North America and Europe.