Nature Prints by Mary Hermans
Nature Prints by Mary Hermans
ELLICOTTVILLE - A collection of beautiful blue prints is currently featured at the Ellicottville Memorial Library through August 2022. These works, created by Mary Hermans, use a unique art-form of Cyanotype: a 170-year-old photographic printing process that produces prints in a distinctive indigo-blue color.
Based in Western New York, Mary Hermans creates one-of-a-kind pieces using ‘treasures’ gathered while exploring in nature. Plants, driftwood, bones, and shells are common mediums used to create framed art, sculptures, jewelry, clothing and more. Flower pressing, cyanotype and eco-printing are among her most favored and adored processes. As an herbalist and healing arts practitioner, Mary is tapped into subtle energy realms and the broader patterns and cycles of life. Her work seeks to illuminate and appreciate the simple, chaotic, beautiful, whimsical, heart-wrenching and life affirming energies around us and within us at all times.
The Ellicottville Memorial Library is located at 6499 Maples Road in Ellicottville, NY. Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm daily; closed Sunday. Evening hours are 5-:00-8:00pm Tuesday and Wednesday.