Anne Abbass-Harkness

Author: anneabbass

  • Large Woodcuts with Flower Portraits

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    These 3 large woodcuts on mylar each have 2 flower portraits sewn on to them. The flowers were taken by myself, on my phone. I call them a protrait becasue it it is a picture of a particular flower at it’s prime.  The photos were cropped and optimized and shared with Instagram.  The photos were…

  • Flower Quilt

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    This print, “Flower Quilt” also from the “Moments in Time” show is made up of many different little prints and pieces of older prints sewn together. Woodcut and linocuts are then printed on top.  Some of the original images I made for this show were included in this quilt.  It is 33.5 by 19 inches.

  • Moments in Time

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    Moments in Time was displayed at the George Gilmour Gallery at Open Studio from February 27 through April 4.  Moments in Time utilizes the type of spontaneous images made possible by the ubiquity of smartphones. In my daily life, I am often on foot and take the opportunity to notice the day-to-day changes the seasons bring…

  • Instagram Flowers: Moments in time

    Instagram Flowers: Moments in time

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    Moments in Time utilizes the type of spontaneous images made possible by the ubiquity of smartphones. In my daily life, I am often on foot and take the opportunity to notice the day-to-day changes the seasons bring in the lawns and gardens of my neighbourhood.  When I see a flower in bloom, or brightly coloured fall…

  • Marks on skin

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  • Knots

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    Monoprints with drypoint, photocopy transfer and linocut. I thought the knots complemented the curved lines and the written words.

  • Greeting cards

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  • Fall leaf prints

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    Photocopy transfer and poly plate litho. Photos taken on Thanksgiving weekend in Muskoka. Bright red leaves against pine needles, rocks, green plans growing out of rocks. Lichen, rocks, leaves, water.  3 words written in script, printed backwards, upside down, vertical.

  • Kids and their drawings

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      Photos of kids and their drawings, with their hand prints and their name and age.  Captures a child at a particular time, with an image of them, and their drawings at the time.

  • Manhattan

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    Memories of living in Manhattan 2000-2002. 29th st between Madison and 5th.  Maps of the Flatiron district, the “grey” area on the old  taxi maps. Bathazar’s for breakfast before walking over the Brooklyn Bridge.  Saturday morning photo transfer workshop at the LES Print Shop.  Studio apt floor, Dr. martin inks and noxious blending markers.  Drawings for…