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Nicole Wittenberg — Queen Anne's Lace
Nicole Wittenberg

Queen Anne's Lace

This exquisite mixed media work combines archival pigment ink printing with delicate pastel application on premium Innova Etching Cotton, creating a luminous meditation on the humble wildflower. Wittenberg's Queen Anne's Lace captures the intricate lacework of the plant's white umbel clusters with botanical precision while introducing subtle color variations and atmospheric effects through pastel that elevate the composition beyond strict naturalism. The artist's layered approach, moving between photographic documentation and hand-applied pigment, generates a contemplative quality that invites prolonged viewing, revealing new details in the delicate branching structures and soft tonal modulations across the sheet. From an edition of fifteen, this thirty by twenty-two inch work on cotton rag paper demonstrates the artist's commitment to archival quality and permanence, ensuring lasting color stability and material integrity for serious collectors. The integration of photography and pastel speaks to contemporary approaches to botanical representation while maintaining a reverent, almost meditative attention to nature's complexity. Queen Anne's Lace functions simultaneously as a technical achievement in hybrid printmaking and as a poetic exploration of ephemeral natural forms, making it a compelling acquisition for collectors drawn to works that bridge the documentary and the dreamlike.

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Nicole Wittenberg, Queen Anne's Lace, 2023, Signed, Archival pigment ink print and pastel on Innova Etching Cotton, Edition 15, 30" x 22" Sheet Size, 30" x 22" Image Size

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Nicole Wittenberg, Queen Anne's Lace

This exquisite mixed media work combines archival pigment ink printing with delicate pastel application on premium Innova Etching Cotton, creating a luminous meditation on the humble wildflower. Wittenberg's Queen Anne's Lace captures the intricate lacework of the plant's white umbel clusters with botanical precision while introducing subtle color variations and atmospheric effects through pastel that elevate the composition beyond strict naturalism. The artist's layered approach, moving between photographic documentation and hand-applied pigment, generates a contemplative quality that invites prolonged viewing, revealing new details in the delicate branching structures and soft tonal modulations across the sheet. From an edition of fifteen, this thirty by twenty-two inch work on cotton rag paper demonstrates the artist's commitment to archival quality and permanence, ensuring lasting color stability and material integrity for serious collectors. The integration of photography and pastel speaks to contemporary approaches to botanical representation while maintaining a reverent, almost meditative attention to nature's complexity. Queen Anne's Lace functions simultaneously as a technical achievement in hybrid printmaking and as a poetic exploration of ephemeral natural forms, making it a compelling acquisition for collectors drawn to works that bridge the documentary and the dreamlike.

Medium
Nicole Wittenberg, Queen Anne's Lace, 2023, Signed, Archival pigment ink print and pastel on Innova Etching Cotton, Edition 15, 30" x 22" Sheet Size, 30" x 22" Image Size
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Georgetown Frame Shoppe, Washington, D.C., United States

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