Brian Fisher Print, Paint and Sculpture Blog

"Adrianople"  Monotype print & Gold Leaf   Artist, Brian Fisher B2 Gallery  Fall Exhibition 711 Saint Helens Avenue, Suite 100 Tacoma, WA. 98402 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm September 26 – October 24, 2015 Artist Reception: Saturday, September 26, 2015 | 5-8pm "Adrianopple" is one of the Monotypes I am showing at B2 Gallery's Fall "Pop Up" Exhibition in September. 

"Warriors Waiting", Monotype Print with gold Leaf mounted to panel. “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.” ― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel I am currently reading and enjoying Clockwork Angel , Cassandre Clare's book one of "The Infernal Devices".  I think I enjoy it because her Nephalem and Demon characters are heroes with weaknesses and shortcomings.  They are flawed and therefore real in their struggle to overcome plot circumstance (life).  There is an edge of realism in the struggle with oneself that is missing when a Hero is too complete and is inspirational when a character that we identify with is, like us, not perfect.  My Monotype Print, "Warriors Waiting&q

"Birth of Athena"  8 x 4 in.  A couple times this summer I have taken tile workshops with Vashon Island artist Cory Winn.  She makes truly exquisite and intricately patterned pottery, objects, tiles and tile installations.  Influenced by early English arts and crafts and medieval illustrations, Cory's work is meticulously crafted and then glazed using the cuerda seca technique. Cuerda seca, (Spanish for "dry cord") is essentially a wax resist line painted to separate the water-soluble glazes.  It is an ancient technique that can make crisp patterns and multiple colors on fired terracotta sing!   Cory is a great teacher and I am quite taken with the whole process.  You know you are having fun when minutes turn to hours and an afternoon has flown! My tile at left celebrates the cerebral birth of Athena, Goddess of wisdom, daughter of  Zeus and the Titan Metis. When Zeus heard the prophecy that a child Metis bore would usurp his thrown, Zeus tricked Me

Plymouth Church of Seattle celebrates the opening of their newly remodeled sanctuary.  This beautiful renovation includes lighting, new paint, ceramic tile floors, acoustic wall configurations and an astonishing new ($2.4 million) pipe organ. Modeled after the Cavaille-coll organ at St. Francoise Church in Lyon, France, it will be the only purely authentic French Romantic organ in the Pacific Northwest.  I look forward to the performances! The Sanctuary Improvement Project Committee, improvement donors and all who were involved will be acknowledged in the grand reopening on Sunday, May 3, at 4 PM.  The Susan Pascal Trio and Plymouth Church Choir will perform in celebration. I am so honored that Janice Randal, Plymouth's Director of Communications,    selected my steel and wood sculpture, "Oracle at Delphi" to be part of Plymouth Church's inaugural exhibition! The sanctuary and sculptural exhibit will be open on Seattle's First Thursday Ar

  "Jason"  "The Boxing Match"  "Resurrecting the Ram" and "Claiming the Fleece"  Rust Monoprints by Brian Fisher I am very excited to have work from my Argonautica series selected to hang in the Washington State Governor's Mansion.  This is the third exhibit Roby King Galleries of Bainbridge has curated for the private/public spaces of the Governor's residence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "The Sphinx" was the inspiration for a recent series of eight small prints.  Each was created by printing a cut cork plate over monotype backgrounds.  The cork matrix was an experimental material but definitely one that I will use again. Above is "Life, Death Overtaking" and below "Daedalion Plan"   (5 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.)

Kouros, 30x30 in., Rust Monotype on panel with gold leaf Roby King Galleries In Winslow on Bainbridge Island, Washington, hosts a Printmaking Exhibition this month.  The opening reception is October 3 at 6 PM.  My rust Monotype Kouros (youth), above, and companion print Kore (maiden) will be exhibited. Kouros and Kore were inspired by sculpture of archaic Greece (800 BC – 480 BC).  The Kouroi and Korai sculptures of Greece did not represent an individual but the idea and ideal of youth, a combination of moral and physical beauty and nobility.