Sisters artist featured at Bend gallery

Six Oregon artists share recent artwork inspired by trees, on display at Atelier 6000 (A6) in Bend through January 29 (traveling from Portland's World Forestry Center where it was shown at the end of 2016). Participating artists are members or past members of A6, a printmaking and book arts studio and gallery in Bend.

Each artist was naturally drawn to a particular tree species, responding to visual qualities as well as geographical, social or historical contexts. A6 will host an Art Talk Friday, January 13 at 6 p.m. when A6 artists from the "Inspired by Trees" exhibit discuss their individual inspiration for their work; the talk is free and open to the public.

The A6 featured member, with a small adjunct show (without trees, but with many birds) this month, is Lynn Woodward of Sisters.

As the featured artist, she demonstrated intaglio printing at A6 during the First Friday Art Stroll, January 6. Anyone curious about how one of these old presses works, the different types of print methods that use plates and hand-applied ink is welcome to visit the studio to see the exhibit and ask questions of any folks printing any time A6 is open: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Woodward works at A6 on Mondays, 3 to 7 p.m.

Matted work by A6 members is for sale at the gallery in addition to the show.

Lynn Woodward's degrees are in biology and computer graphics, but she's been a photographer all her life. She's worked fixing computers, teaching rock-climbing, packing mules, making sandwiches, skinning birds, singing songs ... you get the picture. She likes to mix up academic, artistic, intuitive and physical work.

Her current work is partly photography: natural-light portraits, studio product shots, and event and news coverage for local and national media; and as a graphic designer and writer, she creates books, brochures, other printed materials and websites. Her photographs and writing have been published in The Nugget.

She is following her curiosity into intaglio printmaking and enjoys making prints and books by hand as well as pixels - it's meditative, and each is unique.