Lisah Horner
Travel, Discovery, Art and Elixirs
Relief Print Maker
"My major influences have been the Japanese wood block printmakers Kawase Hasui and Hiroshi Yoshida. Instead of using their multiple block printing method, I incorporate the early, single 'key block' technique using linoleum. Once carved, I handprint the linocut using black ink on watercolor paper. Later, I hand-color the print with watercolor that I mix myself in order to achieve the radiance of color that tube paints and block printing inks cannot provide."
State of Jefferson Linocuts
You are now entering The State of Jefferson, the 49th State of the Union. Jefferson is now in patriotic rebellion against the states of California and Oregon. This State has seceded from California and Oregon this Thursday, November 27, 1941. Patriotic Jeffersonians intend to secede each Thursday until further notice. For the next hundred miles as you drive along Highway 99, you are traveling parallel to the greatest copper belt in the far West, seventy-five miles west of here. The United States government needs this vital mineral. But gross neglect by California and Oregon deprives us of necessary roads to bring out the copper ore. If you don't believe this, drive down the Klamath River highway and see for yourself. Take your chains, shovel and dynamite. Until California and Oregon build a road into the copper country, Jefferson, as a defense-minded State, will be forced to rebel each Thursday and act as a separate State." State of Jefferson Citizens Committee Temporary State Capital, Yreka (1941)
Contact Lisah for Availability
Linocut and watercolor commission inquiries are always welcome. Please contact me for more information regarding the availability of linocut editions as well as the commission of an original watercolor painting.