Gwendolyn E. Tatreaux

Gwendolyn Tatreaux is a printmaker and poet living and working on the island Islesboro, in the Penobscot Bay of Maine. Her work is a visually rich and meaningful exploration of relationships to ‘Island.’

With a BFA from the University of Southern Maine, she teaches print classes and volunteers at the printmaking studio at Waterfall Arts Center in Belfast, Maine.

Meant to be at once both dark and magical, intricate and grande, beautiful and bestial.

Artist Statement

Works are the development of a private language. Elements of that language are deciphered and mapped, combined and extracted to interpret the hidden narrative of the islands, island-living, and Maine.

The matrices used to create this work are sourced from islands: sea-soaked bones, shells,insect-eaten driftwood. Hides are from local animals either washed ashore or found by the roadside.

Prints are created directly from these found and manipulated island materials, and mixed with traditional processes of etching and monoprint, hand-painting, and scribed details.

Sculptures take the form of a more literal character: where prints offer the record and transcription, the sculpture acts as direct storyteller: they speak the language.

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