Peter Knapp, Artist
Mixed Media / Painter, Printmaker and Photographer

Woodcuts: Traditional Prints, Archival Pigment Prints, and Repurposed Woodblocks

My woodcut work began in my youth, expanding into ambitious, large-scale black and white compositions in the early 1970s, and again in the mid 1990s. After decades gone by, compositions from the 1990s were finally finished and realized as editions at First Proof Press in Brattleboro VT (2021 and 2022)—a dream come true. This traditional labor has led to a significant evolution: the creation of archival pigment prints from the original woodblocks. This generative process captures every detail with unprecedented clarity, resulting in the purest visual fidelity. This digital approach is viewed not as a reproduction, but as the purist, most evolutionary realization of the original composition's intended clarity and precision.

Collection Sections
The work is presented in the following three main sections:
1.    Work from the 1990s: Traditional editions printed in 2021 and 2022, alongside archival pigment print editions (2025).
2.    Work from the 1970s: Original prints from my early, large-scale black and white period.
3.    Repurposed Woodblocks: Blocks from both the 1970s and 1990s timelines now treated as sculptural elements.