@colleendwire.bsky.social
Illustrator, wood engraver, printmaker, writer
Linoleum cut done in October 2025. Flowering cacti at sunrise with words "truth will out"
We will get through this time. Courage and compassion. Violence extinguishes evolution.
21.01.2026 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Wood Engravers' Network's 5th Triennial Exhibition will be arriving at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library in March! Hope you can make time to be inspired by this wide variety of approaches to this historic medium.
sfpl.org/exhibits/202...
#printmaking #woodengraving #woodcuts
poster reading: When THE POWER OF LOVE overcomes the love of power the world will know PEACE ~ Jimi Hendrix
A free poster from North Bay Letterpress Arts
www.northbayletterpressarts.org
standard edition opened to frontispiece drawing, shows facsimiles, maps, and slipcases
standard edition opened to illustration of sequoia trees, limited edition book with patterned cover shown on left
book launch event (12/22/25) with Kevin Kosik, Executive Director of the Book Club of California
creative team, Dennis Kruska, Colleen Dwire, Elizabeth Pomeroy, Dina Pollack, Julyana Gilan of Book Island
A terrific honor and pleasure of 2025 was being hired to illustrate a very interesting book for The Book Club of California, its 244th publication. bookclubofca.square.site/product/our-...
The project has 13 pen & ink drawings, 2 maps, and 2 facsimiles
#journals #illustration #yosemite #letterpress
2025 wood engraving Christmas card: elf with large Christmas ornament hat holding sign reading "LEAD WITH YOUR HEART"
Happy Holidays and Warm Wishes for a Hearty New Year!
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Join in on the fun! Carve a linocut and see it printed by a steamroller, enjoy live poetry readings, great music, family activities and more!
www.northbayletterpressarts.org/north-bay-pr...
Pat and Mike, two leprechauns, perched on their familiar barstools with pints at hand. Pat says, "I know me jigs, Lass," I says. "I don't care to larn this Twelve Step you keep talking' about.'" (original cartoon © 1996 Colleen Dwire)
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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