“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us… and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes and come back to us as effects.” ----Herman Melville This quote appears on the opening page of artist Ellen Heck’s book, Six Years of Printmaking at the Kala Art Institute. Truly a current-day Mary Cassatt, printmaker Ellen Heck explores the human experience through the language of printmaking. She believes “we are all perpetual printmakers, constantly leaving traces of ourselves on the world around us.” Heck holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Brown University. She works as a printmaker in North Carolina. She has a rich exhibition history at galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad. Her work is in collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Stanford University, and the Swope Art Museum, to name a few.
Cecilia as Frida, woodcut and drypoint, 2011, 8 x 6 inches
Shannon as Frida, woodcut and drypoint, 2011, 8 x 6 inches
Figure Sketchbook #1310 and #1311, mixed media, 2013, 19 x 26 1/2 inches
Sketchbook #135, mixed media, 2013, 19 x 13 inches
Sketchbook #1413, mixed media, 2014, 19 x 13 inches
Sketchbook #1421, mixed media, 2014, 19 x 13 inches
Sketchbook #1505, mixed media, 2015, 19 x 13 inches
Sketchbook #1420, mixed media, 2014, 19 x 13 inches
Julia Set, woodcut, drypoint, aquatint, 2020, 24 x 22 inches
An Arrangement of Closed Curves, woodcut, drypoint, aquatint, 2020, 24 x 22 inches
A Varied Edition, woodcut, drypoint, aquatint, 2020, 24 x 22 inches
Portrait of a Self-Portrait, woodcut, drypoint, aquatint, 2020, 24 x 22 inches
Adrienne Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting , 15 x 11 inches
Amy Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, drypoint and Mezzotint, 15 x 11 inches
Anna Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Appraisal, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
Audry Wearing 36 Interlocking Strips as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
Bethany Wearing a Perforated Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
Charming, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 22 x 15 inches
Decided, drypoint monotype, 22 x 15 inches
Devotion, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
Folded, woodcut, drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Girl Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat ( a Straw Hat), woodcut, drypoint, hand painting, 29 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
SOLD - Girl with a Blivet Pendant Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint, hand painting, 29 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
SOLD - Heather Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, drypoint, woodcut, and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Inoculation, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
Iris Writing a Letter, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Kate Wearing Architecture as a Hat, drypoint and woodcut, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Kira and Three Mobius Knots, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
Maria, Who Refused to Wear a Hat, Woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
Mia Wearing a Perforated Mobius Strip as a Hat, aquatint and drypoint, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Miranda, Escher's Knots, the Number Two, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
Miriam Wearing a Double Interlocking Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
Sarah Wearing One of a Series of Hats, drypoint monoprint, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Space Curves Where There is Matter, aquatint and drypoint, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Three, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Two, aquatint and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Wren Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
-st -ends, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Boy with a Trademark Heart, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
Girl with a Heart Shaped Earring, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
Threshold, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Simona Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Sasha Wearing a Toroidal Scherk Surface as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Sam Wearing Three Mobius Strips as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and watercolor, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Naming, woodcut, drypoint and aquatint, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Laura Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint, hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Julia Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and watercolor, 15 x 11 inches
Holly Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches
SOLD - Girl with Three Hearts, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Girl with Heart Wings, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Disclosure, Ed. 2, woodcut and drypoint, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Fathom, drypoint monotype, 22 x 15 inches
SOLD - Daphne Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat, woodcut, drypoint and hand painting, 15 x 11 inches