Welcome to my flickr page! I also have a website: www.NicoleRawlins.com

I am in the process of updating my website, so see my most current events below.

A little more about me:

I am a printmaker and painter. I run the Printmaking department and the Adult Visual Arts program at the Multnomah Arts Center in Portland, Oregon, USA. For the first 16 years of my professional printmaking life (1993 - 2009) I was an artist member of Inkling Studio in Portland, a cooperative printmaking studio. I now work at my new home studio, Pandora Press Art Studio in NE Portland, OR. My gorgeous press was made by local pressmaker, Ray Trayle. I work predominantly in intaglio printmaking, which includes etching, mezzotints, spit bite and drypoint. You can find my work in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum and Oregon State Univeristy. My father, Gary Rawlins, is also a painter and printmaker (also on Flickr.) He works as a lithographer and teaches art at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. We often exhibit their work together and enjoy sharing our love of art.

Artist statement

My art focuses on people and relationships, from both actual and mythical subjects. I work from life, sketches and photographs, creating a personal narrative.

Notes about the prints

The dominant medium I work with is intaglio (etching). I enjoy the sculptural quality of the etched plates. Each plate contains the memory of every mark that is etched into it - even when the marks are scraped away, there is often evidence of lines and tones left behind.

Spit bite is a favorite technique I use in my etchings to create delicate washy tones and dark inky blacks. It actually involves using spit, which is used as a vehicle for the nitric acid which is then painted directly on to the plate to create the lights and darks.

Most recently, my work has been influenced by art from the early Renaissance, particularly Flemish artists and works by artists such as Fra Angelico. Studies of the human hand are combined with tarot and astrological symbols, alchemical patterns and images from the natural world to show a different facet of human existence.

About Multnomah Arts Center - I have created a printmaking program at my day job. We have a simple table top etching press, a litho press and small letterpress. We offer courses in etching, lithography, monotoye, screenprinting, relief printing, collagraph and more. It is a great community of budding printmakers. Check us out at: www.MultnomahArtsCenter.org

Where to find my work:

Guardino Gallery (Porland, OR) www.guardinogallery.com

RiverSea Gallery (Astoria, OR) www.riverseagalleryastoria.com

Print Arts NW (Portland, OR) www.printartsnw.org

Portland Art Museum's Rental Sales Gallery (Portland, OR) www.pam.org

See a past show at Augen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvQh-nq3-bk&feature=player_em...

News:

See my upcoming show - Myth & Meaning Etchings

by Nicole Rawlins

February 14 - April 3, 2016

Chapel Gallery

First Presbyterian Church 1200 SW Alder Street Portland, OR 97205

Ph: 503-228-7331

www.firstpresportland.org

www.NicoleRawlins.com

Artist Receptions:

Sunday, February 14, 11:30-1pm

First Thursday, March 3, 5-8pm

Gallery Hours:

Tu - Fri 9-5, Sun 8-1

Enter via door on 610 SW 13th Free parking in garage. Bring ticket for validation.

And at the Multnomah Arts Center gallery opening April 1st - MAC Trayle Studio Printmakers - Past & Present. Instructor and student show. www.MultnomahArtsCenter.org