Folktale & Fairytale Linocut Prints
Feathers & Folktales is the website of Diem Dangers, artist, folklorist & printmaker offering beautifully handcrafted folktale inspired linocut prints that remind us of our ancient kinship with the wild. Featuring animals and magical creatures from folklore alongside wide variety of botanical elements, each piece contains a precious offering from the past, a mythos, that enlivens our sense of enchantment with the natural world.
Linocut Art
A linocut is a type of relief print, that preserves the ancient method of traditional hand carving and the age-old technique of handprinting. A pattern or image is hand-carved out of artist’s linoleum which is then rolled with ink, and paper is hand-pressed on top to reveal the final art print.
Hand printing from a block of carved linoleum that has been rolled with ink.
Carving the block of artist’s linoleum with a gouge tool.
Particularly unique is the gouge tool’s capacity to etch out fine feathers, strands of fir and scales on a fish as well as details such as the bark of a tree or blades of wild grasses enabling these distinctive textures from nature to come to focus.
The texture from the hand carving and variations in ink density from printing by hand gives the resulting artwork a rustic charm and timeless feel lending itself well to folkloric themes, and folktale motifs.
Details showing the carved block of linoleum and the final print of Baba Yaga, a folk heroine and wilderness creatrix from Russian folklore. The design includes characters and elements from the folktale inside Baba Yaga’s body.
Diem Dangers is A Linocut printmaker, ARTIST & Folklorist
I love using the age-old technique of hand-carving and hand-printing to create visual reminders of the mythic wild inside us. Through my artwork and writing I explore the enchanted folklore forest of our collective human heritage using ecospiritual and mythopoetic perspectives. These timeless and enduring folktales offer us a poetic lense through which we can rediscover the intertwined root system of buried human connections and our deep belonging to this wild and precious planet.
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These archival quality linocut prints are 100% originally designed, carved, inked, handprinted and packaged by hand for you from a small home studio.
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These timeless and enduring folktales offer us a poetic lense through which we can rediscover the intertwined root system of folkloric synchronicities, our human-to-human kinship, and our deep belonging to this wild and precious planet.
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