The Brabanter is an ancient chicken breed from the Brabant region of Holland / Belgium. Etching (2016).
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Little red rooster
From a series of chicken portraits (2015). Etching.
Eisvogel4x (sewn)
I decided to try sewing my blind contour drawings of Kingfishers on a sewing machine. I liked the reverse side as much as the front. Planning further blind contour sewings in the future! From 2016.
Eisvogel4x
Eisvogel / European Kingfisher (2016). Two-color woodcut printed on Rives paper. From blind contour drawings I did at the Berlin Natural History Museum.
Winter Foxes 2014
My 2014 fox print was inspired by my dreamy new Kleingarten with its tall grasses and Strandkorb (beach chair). There really is a fox that has been spotted going through the garden at night, and I occasionally find his tracks. I imagine him and his friend having all kinds of adventures there in the winter when nobody’s around. Three-block Japanese woodblock print. Printed in a numbered edition of 50 on Japanese Kozushi paper.
Winter foxes © Deborah Anne Bowen
Cutting the woodblocks for winter foxes
Printing the second of three plates for winter foxes
Winter foxes © Deborah Anne Bowen
Fox encounter, close-up
Sketch for the winter foxes © DAB
Lichtgrenze
My 2014 holiday etching celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago and the beautiful Lichtgrenze, an impressive and (for me) very moving installation of balloons along the former course of the wall through the middle of Berlin. The balloons were released one after the other on the evening of November 9.
Lichtgrenze © Deborah Anne Bowen
Exhibition “Encounters with a kohlrabi – and other curious beings”, MPIB, 2014
One of the highlights of 2014 for me was my exhibition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Center for Adaptive Rationality. The exhibition was curated by Mauren Antkowski. Here are a few photos from the opening and a tour I gave through the exhibition on September 24.
Deborah Anne Bowen – tour of the exhibition. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Deborah Anne Bowen – talking printmaking techniques. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Examining the fox book. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Looking at: American Cicada. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Hang on, Little Tomato. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Deborah Anne Bowen – tour of the exhibition. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Deborah Anne Bowen – tour of the exhibition. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Diary of a Viktoriapark Fox. Photo © Dagmar Gülow
Display of small woodblock prints, etchings, cards, and printmaking tools. Photo © Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup
Friends helping with the aperitivi. Photo © Paul Pedersen
Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Photo © Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup
Kohlrabi print & two plates. Photo © Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup
Mini-[ʤa:ijl] Photo © Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup
Robin and Hannes. Photo by Deb
Diary of a Viktoriapark Fox
“Diary of a Viktoriapark Fox” is a story without words about the odyssey of a fox in Viktoriapark (Berlin-Kreuzberg) told in a series of six scenes. It’s printed as a leporello – an accordion-fold book that can also be opened to stand upright and viewed as a panorama (90 x 25cm). Japanese woodblock print, series of 10.
The “hidden track” on the back.
Work in progress on the first two woodblocks (with two pages each)
Printing the foxes on the press with oil pigments, two scenes per block of wood. The background was printed first from one long piece of wood – hand-rubbed with baren using water pigments. 
The front and back cover hot off the press…later signed and numbered.
New Year’s Woodcut – Foxes at Tempelhofer Feld
Three-color Japanese woodblock print on Kozushi paper. Printed over two weekends at Druckatelier in Berlin-Neukölln. Dedicated to the local foxes and to the beautiful Tempelhofer Feld. May it remain wide-open and free for all the people and foxes (and other animals) of Berlin!
Christmas / New Year’s Etching 2013
This continues my Berlin-themed holiday card series: Eckkneipe with waiting dog – both, to me, are Berlin. Since working on this card, I have become obsessed with old Berlin signage, especially neon script. More of that to come (at some point)!
Deborah Anne Bowen 