STATEMENT: My current work is dominated by an interest in textiles, where systems of woven, tiled or tessellated designs inspire my approach. Other attentions draw me to patterns from nature and science. Drawing provides a meditative basis to my art practice forming the seed for further work in printmaking. In printmaking I use mainly monotype, cut paper stencils, relief blocks and collagraph plates. My process involves constructing matrices that create a lexicon of parts I then collage back together. I’m deeply satisfied by the intensity of the work process and the engagement with the materials and working with my hands. For me, the work is realized when it connects me to an intangible, emotional, and sublime place, and I feel accomplished when my work embodies a unique balance of control and serendipity.

BIOGRAPHY: Gwen Partin received her MFA in printmaking from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and her BA in studio art in printmaking and drawing from Sonoma State University. She is currently a member of Form+Content Gallery. Her work has been in numerous one person and group exhibitions including the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Abbott Northwestern Medical Clinic, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine University; the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota and has work in both public and private collections. She was a graphic designer, illustrator and educator preceding an early retirement to pursue her art practice full time.
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