About | mattbrownwoodprints

1958: Born in Boston, Mass.
1981: Graduated magna cum laude., Harvard College.
1981-1995: worked as carpenter, cabinet-maker, and builder.
1990: Married Elizabeth Page.
1992: Birth of son Nathaniel.
1993: Began making color prints using Japanese methods.
1995: Became state-juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen.
1997: Birth of son Asher.

I graduated from college hoping to work with my hands. In 1987 I established my own business doing all kinds of work with wood: post and beam barns, new house construction, renovations, additions. Cabinetry work led to the construction of a shop which is where I now make my woodblock prints.

My print-making career owes much to those years. Learning to work with wood, to line things up and judge by eye, to draw up plans and implement them into 3 dimensions: was this not a printmaking apprenticeship? My materials are now pigments, wooden blocks, paper. My pursuit is with line, shape and color. The dreams I endeavour to realize are my own. But It feels like the same process of visualizing something, analyzing it into parts, and putting hand to tool and guiding how the parts work together..