About the Artist
Julie Cornett has been making linocut prints in a Modern Country style since 2008 and draws inspiration from the high desert and Eastern Sierra, where she calls home.
Linocut is a type of print made from a sheet of linoleum into which a design has been cut in relief. Julie primarily uses the reduction printing technique, beginning with a design and carving out more and more elements of the original design as she prints. She uses traditional hand-print methods to achieve texture but also experiments with a Woodzilla press. Her earlier works are printed using Speedball inks and she currently uses Cranfield inks for their richer saturation.
Artists’ Statement
My art practice celebrates the stark landscapes and creatures of the Eastern Sierra and Indian Wells Valley, where I was born and raised. The impressions achieved with linocut printing, along with the sharp color contrasts I use, capture the severity of these landscapes. My designs attempt to illustrate the mystical connection I have with the area.
Creativity is often serendipitous and fleeting and I’ve found that the reduction linocut technique captures this transitory nature; cut by cut, the original image is destroyed as it is carved out for the printing stages, resulting in one-of-a-kind, limited series that can’t be replicated.
