Tuesday Edition: Carrie Marill

This week's work on paper edition is The Faceted Couroucou by Carrie Marill, an artist (and farmer!) living in Arizona.

These are archival pigment prints on cotton rag paper. This edition is available in one size only. They'll be on sale on our site at 2pm (EDT) today:

200 prints measuring 11" x 8.5" are available, for $20 each.

I came across Carrie's work during one of my marathon internet art-surfing sessions. I fell in love with it immediately - her drawings are beautiful, odd and fascinating. The fact that many of her pieces feature birds give her work an instant appeal for me - I've had an abiding fascination with our fine feathered friends for many years now.

In Carrie's world, living things are united not by habitat, but by a common bond of endangerment - disparate plants, birds and other living things co-habitate in unlikely combinations in her gouache on paper compositions.

The process of proofing this print was an interesting education for the 20x200 team. The mix of strong and delicate colors played out very differently as we looked at them on a variety of papers. Naturally we went with the best one - the Crane Portfolio cotton rag paper that this is printed on brings out the warmth and detail of the piece, and its matte surface makes the colors incredibly lush.

You can see more of Carrie's work on her website, and also on her LA gallery's site. She is represented by wonderful sixspace in sunny California, among a terrific array of emerging artists.

Enjoy Carrie's work, and be on the lookout for tomorrow's photography edition from Minneapolis-based Karolina Karlic.

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