Bryan Nash Gill is Best Known for his prints taken from tree trunks/logs, capturing all the detail of the pieces of wood including the inner rings and outer bark layers.

Gill used recycled lumber, covered it with ink and paper and pressed and scratched the wood pattern on the paper with his fingers.

He rescues the wood from the property surrounding his studio and neighboring land, extracts and prepares blocks of various species (including ash, maple, oak, spruce, and willow), then makes prints by carefully following and pressing the contours of rings and ridges until the intricate designs transfer from tree to paper. I needed a drawing space separate from my sculpting space so I designed a drawing studio upstairs and the sculpture studio on the ground floor. Thinking about the print making techniques I am employing in the artist’s book making project, using nature to make prints, this work is highly relevant.

His work gives me an insight into another way an existing artist has engaged with nature and how he has used it in it’s simplest form to create some visually appealing work. The notecards are well-presented on recycled paper with attractive packaging and I highly recommend them to anyone interested in trees and / or woodcuts. His early works were mainly abstract metal sculptures, but over time he increasingly began to work with wood instead of metal. I am often on the look-out for notecards that don't fall into any of the medium's typical expectations.The results are colored, nuanced shapes-mesmerizing impressions of the structural integrity hidden inside each tree. When printing with many colors, viscosity, opacity, and translucency are very important and I sometime feel like a mad scientist. Bryan Nash Gill (November 3, 1961 – May 17, 2013) was an American artist who worked primarily with wood, in the form of relief prints and sculptures. Although Gill began his art career in glassblowing, ceramics and landscape drawing, he gradually turned to sculpture. Gill's work has been displayed at the New Britain Museum of American Art and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and he was commissioned to create installations for Expo 2005 in Japan and the World Financial Center in New York.

Like a fingerprint, each impression becomes individual, revealing a personality, a sensitivity to the skin.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I not only create objects but love collecting objects, these two practices result in a studio that is visually overloaded. Gill has received two Connecticut Individual Artist Grants, is a California Arts Council Fellow and in 2005 he received the Artist Resource Trust, from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. The footprint of the studio is about 2800 square feet and has a large garage door for moving large sculptures in and out and opens up to a big field where we can watch the wild life. It was so dense and the annual growth rings were so close together that they could not be accurately counted beyond two hundred.

GemmaSchiebeFineArt II Continuing my artistic education and recording my time throughout my second year as a BA (Hons) Fine Art Student at Cardiff Metropolitan University – “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. The connection to nature is stronger than if he just drew this image as nature has been used to create it and I definitely feel that when I look at his work. Woodcut will appeal to anybody who appreciates the grandeur and mystery of trees, as well as those who work with wood and marvel at the rich history embedded in its growth. I visit a few bone yards that are filled with discarded trees, and friend’s occasional point me in the direction of a newly cut tree.

He created prints from a large variety of trees, of which the oldest was a fallen 200-year-old chestnut tree once planted by Frederick Law Olmsted. The nature and trees around him have always been an creational source for him, not only are they beautiful from the outside at but also when you try to investigate a look inside.