Spirits in the Land is a collection of linocut and woodcut relief prints that visually explore animist possibilities within the local landscape through the artist’s own pictorial heritage rooted in western art history. The European woodcut tradition carries its own richness that encodes ideas of land and nature within the medium. Parker’s work references early 20th century British printmaking, the work of Albrecht Durer, Renaissance art, and medieval woodcut traditions.

Parker lives with her family in a rambling 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Maine. She loves to “inter-be” with the surrounding landscape through growing her own food, celebrating the wheel of the year, and closely observing the surrounding world in the process of art making. See www.nellparker.com