Jenny Freestone and the art of prints

The most abused word in the art lingo is the word "print."

Jenny Freestone works in the printmaking media of etching, drypoint, monoprint, stone lithography, photogravure, direct gravure, and photopolymer gravure. Those are all "real prints." If you paint a watercolor and then have it reproduced on paper, those are "reproductions" - not prints!

And Freestone is a master printmaker! She writes about her work:

 I choose my printmaking medium carefully –  the stark etching line, the soft lithograph line, the rich drypoint line or the gravure method, the quality of a photographic image – to reflect the meaning I intend within the print.

Behold "Bird II", c. 2018. Photogravure with chine colle. 10x11 inches.

Jenny Freestone, "Bird II"
c. 2018. Photogravure with chine colle. 10x11 inches