Barbara Hudin
Over the past twenty years, my focus as an artist has been mainly on mixed media encaustic painting and printmaking. While a student at the Pacific NW College of Art in Portland Oregon, my major was in printmaking and drawing, however, due to the toxic nature of the materials, most printmaking processes had to be done mainly on expensive copper and zinc plates, in a specially equipped studio environment. Now with the evolution of new and innovative nontoxic printmaking techniques, I have rediscovered the joy of making prints again.
As a painter and printmaker my subject matter may include fantasy landscapes, animals, and the human form. I am currently creating prints with 3 processes and often combine them for a single print. The processes are Saline Sulfate etching on aluminum or steel plates, Imagon HD solar film laminated on plexi or metal plates, and Processing computer code imagery transferred to a plate and worked with the other techniques. All print editions are hand inked and manually run through an etching press in my studio.
Most of the techniques I currently use to create art (encaustic and printmaking) are self taught, with the help and advice of many extremely creative and generous people who have taken the time to document and share their knowledge with me and the rest of the world. With this website, I hope to continue with this spirit of sharing ideas and processes. This site will also host the work of guest artists/photographers on occasion.