Enhanced Listing: Jill Levene

Printmaker

Warren, MN

County: Marshall

Inquiries: middlesistermade@gmail.com

Instagram ji.ll327

Artist Statement

“Gainfully retired from commercial graphic design, I now enjoy the freedom to integrate my world travels with natural history and the environment to create my “inklings” — pen and ink renderings of people, non-human animals, and natural settings. In 2011, I was introduced to New England;s remarkable Folly Cove Fabric Designers of the mid-20th Century. This discovery inspired me in a new direction — block carving and printing on fabric using originally-designed, hand-carved linoleum blocks based on my inklings. Added to this is my interest in repurposing various types of fiber-based food packaging, such as tea and gum wrappers, by incorporating fragments of these colorful containers onto the inklings foundation. The combination of inklings, block printing on fabric, and kitchen-based art led me to my current focus on functional art — hand-painted usable cloth pieces including dishtowels, bandanas, infant swaddles, aprons, and garden flags — anything fabric — with the goal of creating art that is both functional and perpetual, as well as beautiful and one-of-a-kind for the culinarian and collector alike: ‘Hand-printed. One at a time, every time.’”

Offering

Pen and Ink drawings, baby swaddles to order, hand-printed dish towels, fabric art, mixed media, and other art.

Available for commissions, artist in residencies, workshops.