The Hawk

Janet Turner

Chico, California printmaker Janet Turner began combining printmaking techniques in the mid 1950s and by the 1960s was making it integral to her images, as with this composition, done in 1980 for SAGA (Society of American Graphic Artists), done in an edition of 35. She used both color linocut, a relief process, and screenprinting (serigraphy), a stencil process.

Turner's subjects were often informed by the world of nature and wild creatures, especially the avian members. Turner commented about her work: "...My work comes from my evolving knowledge of social, biological and ecological relationships. My observations through my art have led to new awareness anc have increased my sense of amazement, wonder, my concern about man's impact on the world, a feeling perhaps imperfectly conveyed to others.

I am awed by the richness of nature, interested in details of fur and feathers, which have meaning because they evolved from the relationship of one thing to another..."