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Limited edition letterpress print
Sometimes a plant seems to invite imagination before you know anything about its history.
Caladium is one of those plants.
Its large, distinctive leaves have inspired names including Elephant Ear, Heart of Jesus and Angel Wings—each an attempt to describe the same botanical form through something already familiar to us.
I loved that.
While researching Walter Hill, Brisbane’s first colonial botanist, I discovered that his conservatory in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens was often filled with seedlings he was raising to plant in the Gardens and distribute throughout Queensland.
Caladium, indigenous to areas of South and Central America, belonged to this world of propagation and exchange: plants arriving from elsewhere, being nurtured, multiplied and finding their way into a new landscape.
For me, though, everything returned to the leaf.
I began drawing its generous heart-like form, then repeating and reorganising it. Removed from the plant, the leaves began to relate to one another differently—part botanical study, part pattern, part imagined arrangement.
I printed Caladium on an original Heidelberg Windmill letterpress, pressing those digitally drawn forms into cotton rag paper.
Perhaps what I love most is that people have looked at this same leaf and seen an elephant’s ear, a sacred heart and an angel’s wing.
The plant stays the same.
The story changes according to who is looking.
The Edition
Released in an edition of twenty, Caladium is letterpress printed on Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White 100% cotton rag paper using rubber-based inks.
Each print is signed, titled and individually numbered on the reverse, wrapped in acid-free tissue and presented in a custom protective envelope. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The print is sold unframed and ships worldwide in a rigid protective envelope.
Edition: 20
Paper size: 147 × 105 mm
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White, 100% cotton rag
Printing: Letterpress with rubber-based inks
Press: Heidelberg Windmill
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on reverse
Framing: Unframed
Shipping: Worldwide
Limited edition letterpress print
Sometimes a plant seems to invite imagination before you know anything about its history.
Caladium is one of those plants.
Its large, distinctive leaves have inspired names including Elephant Ear, Heart of Jesus and Angel Wings—each an attempt to describe the same botanical form through something already familiar to us.
I loved that.
While researching Walter Hill, Brisbane’s first colonial botanist, I discovered that his conservatory in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens was often filled with seedlings he was raising to plant in the Gardens and distribute throughout Queensland.
Caladium, indigenous to areas of South and Central America, belonged to this world of propagation and exchange: plants arriving from elsewhere, being nurtured, multiplied and finding their way into a new landscape.
For me, though, everything returned to the leaf.
I began drawing its generous heart-like form, then repeating and reorganising it. Removed from the plant, the leaves began to relate to one another differently—part botanical study, part pattern, part imagined arrangement.
I printed Caladium on an original Heidelberg Windmill letterpress, pressing those digitally drawn forms into cotton rag paper.
Perhaps what I love most is that people have looked at this same leaf and seen an elephant’s ear, a sacred heart and an angel’s wing.
The plant stays the same.
The story changes according to who is looking.
The Edition
Released in an edition of twenty, Caladium is letterpress printed on Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White 100% cotton rag paper using rubber-based inks.
Each print is signed, titled and individually numbered on the reverse, wrapped in acid-free tissue and presented in a custom protective envelope. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The print is sold unframed and ships worldwide in a rigid protective envelope.
Edition: 20
Paper size: 147 × 105 mm
Paper: Magnani Incisioni 650/5 Smooth White, 100% cotton rag
Printing: Letterpress with rubber-based inks
Press: Heidelberg Windmill
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on reverse
Framing: Unframed
Shipping: Worldwide