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My relationship with creativity began at a very young age. As I was growing up my mother, an artist, always had projects for us to work on while she painted. I looked at her art books before I could read. When I entered college I took some of her books with me. I attended Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. In 1975 I received a B.A. in Studio Art. Watercolors and sculptural ceramic vessels made up my Graduation Exhibition.
Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State has been my home since 1980. Clay held me spellbound for many years. In 1984 I began working in 2-D media, mostly pastels and collage. For the past sixteen years I have been working mainly with monotype printmaking and chine collé, a collage method. Recently I have returned to collage and begun a series of acrylic paintings, some incorporating collage elements.
Symbols, especially personal and metaphoric, are elements that I often use in my artwork. While attending college, my paintings were of an inner landscape where seashells consorted with feathers and gave birth to something ethereal. In my "Dream Series", the "Dream" figure started bound, inanimate, sometimes under ground or under water. Later she is seen with wings, finding transcendence, freedom. The "Vase Series" is homage to the alchemy of earth, water, fire and air and an invocation of the creative spirit that comes through the artist's hand.
Over the years I have used my work as a form of prayer, attempting to invoke growth, connection, and transformation. I have not tried to convey the details of my experiences but the essence and feelings, which I think are universal and speak to the soul.

Thank you for looking.
-Grace Lee Korbel

MONOTYPE
Monotype is a printmaking method that produces one-of-a-kind prints. The image is created on the printing plate using a combination of painting and printmaking techniques. Then it is transferred to paper. The plate and paper are placed on the press bed and it is run through the press. After the image is pulled, there is often some ink left on the plate, this is called the ghost image. It can be printed as is, producing the ghost print, or it can be reworked to create another similar image. A whole series of prints can be created this way, spawned by one plate, yet each print will be unique.

MONOPRINT
While the monotype image is created on the flat surface of an unaltered plate, the monoprint combines monotype techniques with other printmaking techniques such as etching, collagraph, or woodcut.

CHINE COLLE'
A French term meaning Chinese collage, chine colle' is a collage method where papers are adhered to the print during the transfer process. Paper is cut and torn, and then adhesive is applied. The collage pieces are then arranged on an inked or clean printing plate with the glued side up. The plate is placed on the press bed, a piece of heavy paper is laid over the plate and it is run through the press.

This information is based on my own experience, attending workshops and information found in "Monotype: Mediums and Methods for Painterly Printmaking" by Julia Ayres

Female, Born on August 18

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