Specializing in Contemporary Handmade Prints

The New Leaf Gallery is a collaborative project set up by Matt Brown & Taryn Fisher focused on the sharing and enjoyment of contemporary hand-made prints. 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 more emphasis on process. In the making of prints more opportunities arise for the work to “talk back" and play formative roles in its own creation. Editions of prints may be completed in batches over months or years; print projects are often the result of more editing, more responding to input and feedback, more trial-and-error work than other art-making methods.