Emily Howard is the head, hands, and heart behind The Diggingest Girl. As a relief printmaker, Emily creates original limited edition fine art prints and other block-printed crafts from hand carved linoleum blocks. Her prints are largely narrative and are a reflection of “a relentlessly curious mind that’s always hungry for a good story“. The printmaker’s works feature a variety of subjects: celebrations of the human form; figures from literature and mythology; contemporary heroes; and the copious flora and fauna that surround her in her northern Kentucky studio.
Emily studied Art at college, and earned three degrees in Studio Art and Art Education from the University of Kentucky and the University of Cincinnati. In 2019, she became an author for the first time with the publication of her instructional relief printmaking book, Block Print Magic (Quarto).
Using oil-based relief inks, Emily prints her original compositions onto nearly any flat surface she can find, but sticks mostly with archival papers, wood, and canvas. She employs a variety of techniques including reduction and multi-block methods for achieving layers of colour, as well as hand-painting and collage to enrich the surface. Depending on the demands of the task, Emily will either pull prints by hand with her trusty wooden spoon, or her Richeson Etching Press. Included in her repertoire of block-printed crafts are canvas wall hangings that she sews herself, pennants, coasters, as well as free-standing sculptural prints on wood panels.
From her Kentucky Study Emily plans to continue writing and carving, and eventually take her work back on the road in her custom 1962 Cushman Minitruck.
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