Portfolios > Woodblock Prints

Japanese method woodblock printing offers the ability to explore a variety of subjects within the limitations of the medium which helps to create a tighter visual aesthetic in which composition and graphic simplicity become key.

Printmaking in general allows me to create editions of handmade prints which are more affordable that one-off paintings, making tangible art more accessible and enjoyed by a wider audience. Japanese method printing, which is non-reductive, also allows me to create subsequent states or color editions, which is impossible to do with the reduction woodcut process which inherently destroys the blocks throughout the process.

An American toad coizies up to a couple of Fly Agaric mushrooms at the base of a decomposing lichenous log.
Woodblock print on Echizen Kozo washi
9"x12" image on 10.5"x13.5" paper
2025
$120
A woodblock print by Dan Fionte. The end of the year is nigh and the waning Cold Moon sets over the granite monoliths at Stage Head, Gloucester Massachusetts.
Woodblock print on Torinoko washi
9"x12" image on 10.5"x13.5" paper
2024
$100
Dan Fionte's first annual Halloween Woodblock print "Brothers Grin" is inspired by two Jack-O-Lanterns carved by my two sons.
Woodblock print on Nishinouchi washi
5"x7" image on 6"x8" paper
2024
$40
A woodblock print by artist Dan Fionte of a twisting cedar tree clings to the rocks along the Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine, overlooking Perkins Cove.
Woodblock print on Echizen Kozo washi
6"x9" image
2024