Specializing in Contemporary Hand-made Prints

The New Leaf Gallery is a collaborative project focused on the sharing and enjoyment of contemporary hand-made prints, set up by Matt Brown and Taryn Fisher in the fall of 2020. We manage things from a newly renovated location at 11 Roxbury St. in Keene, NH.

Though printmaking uses the same vocabulary of all 2D art (shape, color, pattern, space, and line), makers of prints employ a third matrix (a plate, screen, set of carved woodblocks, a sheet of linoleum) to make their imagery. The development of this matrix, the tool which enables the making of art in multiples, encourages an art-making conversation with an emphasis on process. Printmaking processes are fascinating. In the making of prints opportunities arise for the work to “talk back" and play formative roles in its own creation. Often completed in batches over months or years, print editions offer opportunities for editing, for experiment, for practice, for responding to input and feedback.