The Islesford Dock Gallery

WILLY REDDICK


In 1993 on a day trip to Provincetown, I discovered the white line woodblock print. It was a Blanche Lazell print that caught my eye, and inspired me to learn more about the technique. I like the method because of the active process of cutting the block, the application of gouache, and the printing of it with a wooden spoon.*

Asleep on a Loud Rug 14x9.75" Beekeeper 5x5" Beekeeper's Truck 5x5"

Black Cat Floral 5x5"		 Orange Cat and Flowers 3x4" Two Dogs on a Rug 10x14.75"
Willy Reddick was born in Boston and grew up in an encouraging family of professional artists. She studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and has been working professionally as a painter and white-line woodblock printmaker for over 20 years.

She is well known for her meditative images of sleeping dogs and cats on busy, vibrant patterns and regularly exhibits in galleries and museums around New England. Her work is also in the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum as well as in countless private collections.

In addition to producing woodcuts, she designs and manufactures her own line of Willy Wires jewelry, is a freelance designer, handpainting prototypes for the toy industry and is a founding partner of Ċarhus Gallery in Belfast Maine where she lives with her husband Wesley, a sculptor, and three cats. She could not be happier or more inspired.

*The "Provincetown Print" (also called white-line woodblock), developed in Provincetown Massachusetts in 1916, is a color woodcut in which the line drawing is cut into a single block. Gouache is applied with a brush, one area at a time and the attached paper is laid down and rubbed with a wooden spoon to print that area only.. The result is a unique print with a painterly quality in which the line drawing remains strong and integral to the finished piece.