This block print is based on a photograph I took on a morning run through my neighborhood in Ocean Springs. The sun was just coming up over the trees, soft and low, and the light stopped me in my tracks. It was one of those moments that feels both breathtaking and completely calm at the same time.
That morning light, filtering through the trees, felt like a perfect summary of the natural beauty of where I live… quiet, grounding, and easy to overlook if you’re moving too fast. This print is my way of holding onto that moment.
The print is available in a classic black-and-white version or a hand-watercolored edition. The watercolored prints are painted individually, so each one has its own variations in color and mood while staying true to the original image.
Each print is hand printed using oil-based ink from a linoleum block that I carved by hand. Because of this process, no two prints are exactly alike. You may receive a slightly different impression of the same image, printed from the same block using the same ink and paper.
Details:
Image size: 4 × 6 inches
Paper size: 5 × 7 inches
Hand-printed linoleum block print
Optional hand-watercolored version (each one is unique)
Watercolored versions will be similar to the example shown but not identical due to the hand-painted process.
Frames are simple black plastic frames, ready to hang.
This block print features a stand of pitcher plants rising up from the marsh, dotted with insects and crowned by a dragonfly hovering above. Pitcher plants have always felt slightly magical to me—ancient, clever, and quietly fierce—and this print is a celebration of that strange beauty.
The print is available in a classic black-and-white version or a hand-watercolored edition. The watercolored prints are painted individually, so each one has its own variations in color and mood while staying true to the original image.
Each print is hand printed using oil-based ink from a linoleum block that I carved by hand. Because of this process, no two prints are exactly alike. You may receive a slightly different impression of the same image, printed from the same block using the same ink and paper.
Details:
Image size: 4 × 6 inches
Paper size: 5 × 7 inches
Hand-printed linoleum block print
Optional hand-watercolored version (each one is unique)
Watercolored versions will be similar to the example shown but not identical due to the hand-painted process.
Frames are simple black plastic frames, ready to hang.
My work is rooted in an intuitive, slightly feral way of looking at the world, drawn to moments that invite closer attention. Through printmaking, I use observation and imagination to understand and connect with my surroundings.
From spring through fall, I encounter box turtles almost daily, two of them even eat breakfast alongside my cats in the carport. I have grown attached to their slow, steady presence as they move through the world in ways I do not fully understand.
The plants in this work, lanceleaf coreopsis, ferns, mushrooms, and creeping oxeye, come from my neighborhood walks. They are familiar, sometimes overlooked, and bring me joy.
In this work, I think about stardust as something close at hand, present in soil and living things, where the sky above and the ground below begin to mirror one another.
Each print is hand printed using oil-based ink from a linoleum block that I carved by hand. Because of this process, no two prints are exactly alike. You may receive a slightly different impression of the same image, printed from the same block using the same ink and paper.
Details:
Image size: 12×18 inches
Paper size: 16×22 inches
Matted: 18×24
Framed:18×24
Hand-printed linoleum block print
Limited Edition of 150
Frames are simple black frames, ready to hang.
Jessie Zenor makes hand-carved, hand-printed art celebrating nature, food, home and adventure.
Feral South is the studio practice of Jessie Zenor, a block printmaker working on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
This work is rooted in slow making, close looking, and instinct-led process. Each piece is hand-carved and printed, shaped by repetition, attention, and time. The subjects often come from everyday rituals, regional landscapes, food, flora and fauna…things that reveal themselves more fully when we slow down long enough to notice.
Feral South is an ongoing exploration of making as a way of being: rooted, observant, and alive to the details that hold a place together.
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