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Maria Doering
@mariadoering.bsky.social
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I am an Artist/Mother/Printmaker.
Based in Nova Scotia, Canada.
(she/her)

https://maria-doering.com/links/
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Three #proofs of my newest #linocut. The last one is the closest to what I will be settling on.

#print #linoleum #printmaker
May 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I’ve been working hard this past week on making this lino block work. The last two days I finally pulled good prints. Fingers crossed this streak will continue! It’s another 8 colour print that takes about 6h to spot ink and layer the colours and wipe away wherever I don’t want a colour to be.
May 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I had a friend come by today to help with clean up. So by the time I was pulling my #print for the day the #studio was already half cleaned up! What a delight. She also filmed me pull the print. ☺️ What a treat!

#printmaker #ink #mariadoering #pullingaprint #bigprints #linocut #art
May 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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It’s been a productive week of printing this 8 colour print. One pull a day! Fingers crossed it will continue to go well!

#printmaker #bigprints #print #linocut #blockprinting #cellinspired #mariadoering #artist #art
May 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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You know today may have been the first day in 3 weeks that I am feeling better since smashing my toe to bits.And I realized it when I saw all the smiles in my camera roll. I am now deep into editioning the first of 5 large blocks.
#linocut #print #printmaker #spotinking #handprinting #japanesepaper
May 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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One full day of pulling one of these 8 colour prints. 6h of inking, 1h of hand printing and 2h of clean up.

#linocut #printmaking #prints #spotinking #japanesepaper #hainikozo #hancoinks #lithographyinks #takachbrayers
Artist Maria Doering is holding a mini Takach brayer with yellow lithography ink on it. About to ink up the last colour of 8 on an original linocut block handcarved by the artist. Inky table in the studio. Artist Maria Doering pulling a print off the block. Artist Maria Doering is posing in front of her artwork.
May 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I mixed #inks today for a solid 5 hours. I have everything ready for the first #print to be pulled tomorrow. This one will have 7 colours layered right onto the block. I am looking forward to it. Cotton swabs at the ready. #Brayers up. Onwards!
#printmaker #inky #artist #art #process #lithoinks
May 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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During a few days on the couch to rest my damaged foot, I spent a really solid amount of time in my #sketchbook. As I am running out of brush pens and getting a new set isn’t something I can make happen right now I’ve pulled out the prisma coloured pencils. I love the creamy texture. #drawing #art
Dense patterned sketchbook page filled with blues greens and warm reds and oranges. Three patterns overlayed ontop of each other. Coloured in with faber castell brush pens. Art by Maria Doering. Colourful sketchbook page worked with pen, brush pens and coloured pencil. Colourful sketchbook page worked with coloured pencil, brush pens and pen and ink.
April 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I managed to pull 3 decent prints this weekend. It takes 4h to get all the ink on the block so it’s definitely as per usual a slow process. I am happy with the results and am hoping to pull a proper edition later this year when I maybe have more time 😂.

#linocut #printmaker #print #colourful #art
Maria Doering’s linocut print on Haini Kozo Japanese paper printed on a printing press Ink stained cotton swabs of all sizes including outrageously large ones. The carved linocut with 5 our it 6 layers of ink applied. Revealing the print by pulling Japanese paper off the carved linoleum block on the printing press bed
April 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It’s been a long day of pulling proofs and making messes, but I am delighted to have a plan for the edition now.

#printmaking #hainikozo #mariadoering @julierosvall studio #art #print #linocut #proofing
The big reveal, Maria is pulling a colourful cellular image off the carved matrix after running it through a printing press. New pulled multi colour proof It takes 4 hours to ink this intricate block So many inking rollers and ink layer out on the glass palettes. A big mess to clean up
April 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I am at @julierosvall.bsky.social ‘s studio proofing the new block. Many changes still coming but this super colourful version is a fun experiment. More tomorrow
Newsprint proof of new linocut print by Maria Doering. Inked linocut block carved by Maria Doering
April 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I hurt one of my toes yesterday pretty badly. So I did some sketching on the couch today while resting. 🫠 But these colours make me happy.
#sketchbook #watercolour #artist #art #colouredpencils
Sketch booking with coloured pencil over watercolour
April 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Today I made a table for in front of my studio bookshelf. Something with adjustable legs (I still need two more for the middle.) at the exact width of the book shelf so I can access my supplies despite the table. This clicked into place exactly the way I imagined it and needed it. #artiststudio #art
Image of new white custom table with adjustable white legs in front of the bookshelf aligning exactly with the shelf to make access easy.
April 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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These 4 prints were pulled from 36”square #linocuts. The mothering #soul, the old soul, the adventurous soul and the creative soul. They have been adopted into many homes over the years. And were the largest #prints I had made to date. I worked on them between 2015 and 2018. #printmaking #art #cell
The mothering soul, a 38” (97cm) linocut by Maria Doering The old soul, a 38” (97cm) linocut by Maria Doering, this print is part of the Taiwan national museum collection The adventurous soul, a 38” (97cm) linocut by Maria Doering The creative soul, a 38” (97cm) linocut by Maria Doering
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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I spent two days this week doing nothing but cut paper. I am preparing for 8 weeks of printing my large blocks and 4 days of printing the commission project. I cut about 82 pieces of Haini Kozo Japanese paper. I use water and a brush to cut it. Love the fuzzy edges. #japanesepaper #print #art #prep
Haini Kozo Japanese paper from the Japanese Paper place in Toronto 72 sheets of Haini Kozo paper with the fuzzy edges from cutting with water
April 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I started pulling prints. I enjoyed working on this etching but now, on to linocuts! I have a stack of carved blocks ready to go. Starting with the commission project at the end of April, and then big blocks.

#art #print #etching #intaglio #drypoint #printmaking #pullaprint #mariadoering #cells
April 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I am delighted to announce I will be part of #toaf64 also known as the Toronto outdoor art fair again this year. If you are in the area I’d love to see you July 11-13th!
#artfair #mariadoering #printmaker #art #toaf64 #toronto #print
April 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Authenticity, vivaciousness, self preservation and enthusiastic were all an exploration into reduction printing with my cell work. I was looking for more depth and dimensionality. I loved how far I could push the darks and the tiny details.

#mariadoering #cells #reduction #linocut #art #print
Authenticity - reductive linocut by Maria Doering Vivaciousness - a reductive linocut by Maria Doering Self- preservation a reductive linocut by Maria Doering Enthusiastic- a reductive linocut by Maria Doering
March 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Kindness, Longing, Love and Nurturing were some of the first cellular prints I made. Musings on what could these intangible parts of us look like if they were cells in our bodies.

#mariaDoering #kindness #longing #love #nurturing #linocut #cell #imaginary #reliefprint #art #printmaking #blockprint
March 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I am working on a special commission project. Something a bit different than what I usually do. The level of detail carving has been wild though. Here included a graphite rubbing of the progress.

#mariadoering #carving #details #rubbing #linocut #progress #blockprint #printmaking #printmaker #art
Carved linoleum with tiny marks Drawn and carved marmoleum A quick rubbing of the carved progress
March 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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When I am not making prints I draw and paint. This series of Embodiment works on paper are 11x15” framed in a white 20”x 16” wooden frame is from 2018.

https://maria-doering.square.site/shop/ink-paintings/7

#cells #imagination #vibrant #colourful #indiaink #painting #ink #mariadoering
Embodiment IV is a colourful painting on paper with India ink by artist Maria Doering that looks like cellular shapes floating in a blue liquid Embodiment VIII is a colourful painting on paper with India ink by artist Maria Doering that looks like green and blue cellular shapes floating in a yellow and red space Embodiment VII is a colourful painting on paper with India ink by artist Maria Doering that looks like red and blue cellular shapes floating in a blue space Embodiment I is a colourful painting on paper with India ink by artist Maria Doering that looks like bright cellular shapes floating in yellow.
March 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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“With experience” is a linocut printed on fabric which is stitched to another linocut and embellished with hand embroidery

https://maria-doering.square.site/product/with-experience/332?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

#mariadoering #printmaking #art #embroidery #cell #linocut #reliefprint
March 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Squeezing in some framing of tiny prints today.

#framing #prints #metalframes #art #process
Hardware for framing tiny 5x5” frames.
March 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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On September 28th, 2016 my husband saved my brother’s life by donating one of his kidneys to him. A truely heroic act. As an artist there is only one way for me process everything that happened that year, through artmaking. This one of a kind piece came from that process. #art #print #stitches
#printmaking #print artist Maria Doering created this #linocut printed on fabric in orange/red which was then meticulously hand #embroidered with satin stitch and French knots Detail close up of #Benevolent #handembroidery on fabric linocut print Tiny French knot embroidery on linocut print inspired by #kidneydonation
March 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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It’s nice to be excited about a demo plate. I’ve been making this #etching along with my students, used it for a chine collé and surface roll demo today and once finalized I am planning on #editioning this it.

#printmaking #printprof #aquatint #softground #print #intaglio #lineetch #art
An intaglio print on white somerset rag paper printed with black ink of Imaginary cellular structures. Zinc plate with line etch, aquatint, softground etching. Pinned Intaglio print on Hahnemuehle with surface roll and chine collé (with red litho) Close up of intaglio print
March 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM