Claudia Hollister

Crocosmia & Rose, cyanotype print, 11 3/4” x 9 1/8” x 1 1/2”[ includes floater frame]

Trachlium Caeruleum, cyanotype print, 11 3/4” x 9 1/8” x 1 1/2” [includes floater frame]

Fading, cyanotype print, 11 3/4” x 8 7/8” [ includes floater frame]

Cyanotype prints

Intrigued, in 2014, with a process for printing in the sun without dangerous chemicals, I started making small Cyanotype prints. Soon, I was printing larger and creating grounds for my encaustic paintings.

Then Covid 19 came and everything changed. I couldn’t focus on painting, so I found the #100dayproject on Instagram which challenged me to photograph, print and post a cyanotype print each day. Images are mostly from my flower garden, but not beyond my block. These beautiful prints organically became their own series - “Bringing Beauty in Troubled Times.”