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Out of the Wood
Out of the Wood presents eighty reproductions of wood engravings created by Rosemary Kilbourn over a period of fifty years, accompanied by short, elegaic fragments of text that elucidate the artist's unique and influential aesthetic.
216 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2011
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August 4, 2013
It is not enough to get out and look at the world. Sometimes we need someone to show us how to look at things that we see out there. And that is what makes Rosemary Kilbourn's Out of the Wood" such a great book.
Page 15 Introduction by Tom Smart
Kilbourn practises a form and process of image making in a naturalistic mode. Both the materials and the technique associated with the craft of wood engraving provide her the means to interpret her profound associations to the place that has defined her home, and to disseminate her art beyond her studio.
Kilbourn imbues her subjects with a gentle lyricism. Her creative process is meditative, allowing viewers' minds to roam freely in the intervals between their own realities and imaginations and the nature she interprets as wood engravings. Sacred and spiritual, definite and descriptive, these are the polarities that define Kilbourn's art. While the familiar habitually conceals its own presence, Kilbourn recognizes in a thing or phenomenon outside her window a poetry of its own that can be uniquely interpreted from the wood of her end-grain blocks. What appears before her is both immanent and transformative, and these qualities are evident in the lines and tones, the rhythms and the cadences of the complex interplay of texture that comprises her images.
Kilbourn's engravings are detailed. In considering how she groves into wood to make shadows, one can see how also see how see makes the lighted areas. The concept becomes cyclical and then one finally one steps back and see how the whole work exists. Afterwards, one cannot help but take that concept to the outside world.
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Page 15 Introduction by Tom Smart
Kilbourn practises a form and process of image making in a naturalistic mode. Both the materials and the technique associated with the craft of wood engraving provide her the means to interpret her profound associations to the place that has defined her home, and to disseminate her art beyond her studio.
Kilbourn imbues her subjects with a gentle lyricism. Her creative process is meditative, allowing viewers' minds to roam freely in the intervals between their own realities and imaginations and the nature she interprets as wood engravings. Sacred and spiritual, definite and descriptive, these are the polarities that define Kilbourn's art. While the familiar habitually conceals its own presence, Kilbourn recognizes in a thing or phenomenon outside her window a poetry of its own that can be uniquely interpreted from the wood of her end-grain blocks. What appears before her is both immanent and transformative, and these qualities are evident in the lines and tones, the rhythms and the cadences of the complex interplay of texture that comprises her images.
Kilbourn's engravings are detailed. In considering how she groves into wood to make shadows, one can see how also see how see makes the lighted areas. The concept becomes cyclical and then one finally one steps back and see how the whole work exists. Afterwards, one cannot help but take that concept to the outside world.
link to my complete review on my blog
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