Hunters’ Moon

By Leslie Moore

Artist Statement

I am a relief printmaker whose subject is often animals. My work is influenced by Japanese printmakers, especially Ohara Koson (1877-1945), although I don’t use the same multi-woodblock technique. Instead, I practice the reduction method, cutting a single linoleum block and printing a succession of colors—one after the other, one on top of the other—until the final image emerges and the block is reduced to almost nothing. There’s no going back. My artwork may be found in book illustrations and cover designs, private collections, and at the Local Color Gallery in Belfast, Maine.

Hunters’ Moon