Size: 32"h x 26" w


Oil monotype on paper, donated by the artist, Linda Horvitz Post of Northampton, founding director of the Paradise City Arts Festivals.

This distinctive piece is a monotype, a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The image is then transferred onto paper. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, creating lights from a field of opaque color.

The inks used may be oil- or water-based. With oil based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the paper may be damp, in which case the image has a 10 percent greater range of tones. Many Renaissance artists used this technique to create images.

Monotyping produces a unique print, because most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing. This process is often spontaneously executed and with no previous sketch. Post's work is figurative, all about color and movement and dreams, airborne and water-filled. She is intrigued by ambivalence, by the tenuous balance of conscious and unconscious.

Many of her paintings take place at twilight or dawn - the most ambiguous times of day when even the sky is undecided about its intentions and the improbable becomes possible.

Linda is currently working on a series that explores the cusp of adolescence, a time of life rife with ambivalence.