Summerland Mercantile

My table at Summerland Mercantile - it was a beautiful day!

Summerland Mercantile Sale

My friend Cathy is an expert "treasure hunter" of vintage home wares and will be hosting the 1st annual Summerland Mercantile Garden Sale in her beautiful Carpinteria, Ca backyard on Saturday, May 1st from 9am-3pm. I will be selling Queen April Press hand letterpressed notecards, as well as the very hip line of Stella & Dot jewelry. www.stelladot.com/aprilwindsor
Come browse the handcrafted and vintage wares from several local artisans and pick up a mint lemonade or cupcake from A Cake Co. while you're at it. Bring your friends, your mothers, make it a ladies-day-out! Hope to see you there!

April

Cupcake Mania

Send someone well wishes with these sweet notes!

Hand-set metal type, linoleum carved cupcake

Stella & Dot Baubles

Stella & Dot is an eclectic and fun line of jewelry that I am a stylist for....the best thing about it is that I get to wear all my samples! My sister is hosting a Stella & Dot trunk show later this week, where her and her girlfriends will try on fabulous jewels and sip signature cocktails. If you love jewelry, you should definitely consider hosting a Stella & Dot Trunk Show, because the more your friends buy, the more you get for free! You can also order directly off of my Stella & Dot website at www.stelladot.com/aprilwindsor.

A Notecard For All Occasions

Hand set metal type
4 ways to say "Thank You!"

Linoleum carving

A hint of floral notes....

Linoleum carving, hand-set metal type Wood type
Show them the love.....

Linoleum carving, hand-set metal type
"You don't call. You don't write."
A handmade letterpressed note is always a good excuse to reconnect.

Penland Printmaking Residency

Penland School of Crafts is a jewel, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Penland offers classes in all the crafts, from printmaking and letterpress, to hot glass, weaving and clay. For the second time in my life (so far! I plan on going back many more times) I was lucky enough to have been awarded a 2 week printmaking residency. The first time I attended Penland was the summer after I graduated from college - my wonderful art professors at UCSB awarded me a memorial scholarship that was given to a printmaking student each year. I spent 2 weeks studying etching in the sticky heat, while Penland was in full summer swing, and I loved it! This time around, I applied on my own for the Winter Print Residency, where I would be in a class of 5 students, 1 master printer, and only 1 other class of 5 letterpress students would be on campus. It was a much different experience, but having 24 hour studio access while it was snowing outside, was the perfect combination! Below are some photos of the Penland campus, as well as some of my work from this past January.

The Sunrise - photo taken by my teacher, Bill Hall

My etched interpretation of the photo above - 1 plate pull - etching and rainbow roll

Rainbow roll used in the print above.

Bill and I working on my 6 run project! See below for finished product.

Oklahoma Burning. This past summer a friend and I road tripped from Boston to LA and made a brief stop in Oklahoma City. The above etching/linocut/aquatint is based on 2 photos I took. On the right is a statue of Jesus weeping across the street from the Ok City bombing memorial and on the right is the fiery sunset I captured while driving out of the city.

A very intense linoleum project! This stage of the carving was for my last of 5 runs through the press?

I was able to sneak in to the letterpress studio to work on a couple of projects as well - this reduction linocut was a labor of love! A photo of me walking towards the beach on Ocracoke Island in the outer banks of N. Carolina (another road trip stop).

This is a poem I wrote for my grandfather (Opa). The poem was letterpress printed on a very finicky machine with metal and wooden type and the apricot was carved in linoleum.

Mixing inks.

The view across the road from Penland

My teacher/master printer Bill. He works at Pace Print Edition in NYC working with big time artists!

One snowy morning.