El Moro Editions

03/25/2020

El Moro Editions’ latest artist in residence.

09/26/2017

Just beginning.. Christel Dillbohner's first edition. Drypoint, sugar lift and aquatint.

09/24/2017

Christel Dillbohner begins an etching project at El Moro Editions.

06/15/2015

What the Others Taught Me:
A show of etchings by Leslie Sutcliffe
At the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
July 3 – August 2, 2015

The etchings of long-time Cuesta College instructor, Leslie Sutcliffe, will be on view in the McMeen Gallery at The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art from July 3 through August 2. The Central Coast Printmakers chose to present a solo show of Leslie’s prints upon her retirement after 27 years leading the print program at Cuesta. “Printmaking – etching and the many forms of this art – is alive and well on the Central Coast in many ways due to the inspiration and teaching of Leslie Sutcliffe. A large number of the printmakers have taken classes from Leslie, and some were introduced to printmaking through the classes she taught at Cuesta College. Leslie is an expert authority who we turn to when questions arise on anything in this very process-oriented, exciting form of art,” remarked Evy Justensen, member and past-president of the Central Coast Printmakers Group.

Leslie Sutcliffe was first introduced to etching as a student at UC Irvine in the 1970s. Her teacher was the renowned printmaker John Paul Jones. Jones had studied with Mauricio Lansansky at The University of Iowa and Lansansky, in turn, had worked with Stanley William Hayter at his famous Atelier 17 in New York. It is this pedigree that inspired Sutcliffe in her choice for the theme of her exhibition, “What the Others Taught Me.”

“It was the English printmaker Stanley William Hayter who introduced traditional etching and engraving techniques to the modern artists of the 30s, 40s and 50’s, first in Paris and then in New York. Hayter felt it was essential for the artists to master the techniques of etching themselves rather than merely rely on the skills of a master printer. It is this attitude that I’ve brought to my teaching and printing over the years. When the Central Coast Printmakers asked me to mount this show, I immediately knew that I wanted it to be an homage, both heartfelt and light-hearted, to some of the artists and others who taught me so much,” Sutcliffe explained.

Along with her many years at Cuesta, Sutcliffe also taught printmaking at UC Santa Barbara. She was a partner in Apex Etching Editions in Los Angeles, where she printed for well-known artists and galleries, and has published etchings at her own studio, El Moro Editions in Los Osos. She has exhibited her paintings and prints at the Brooklyn Library in New York, the University of Minnesota in Morris, the Brand Library in Glendale, CA and at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson.

Artist and Cuesta College instructor Marcia Harvey describes Sutcliffe’s prints. “Leslie Sutcliffe’s mastery of printmaking is such that it is invisible- our only experience is of light and dark, paper and ink- there is no glimpse of the technical marvels and machinery behind the curtain. These prints will move you into their spaces, they will touch your center, while the quiet machinery hums silently behind the image.”

A reception and opportunity to meet the artist and members of the printmakers group will take place on Friday, July 3, from 6–9 pm, in conjunction with Art After Dark.

11/09/2013

20/20 Project: Little Buddha by Bill Jehle

11/09/2013

Bill Jehle's website: http://billjehle.com/

Will Jehle at work at El Moro editions in 2012

11/09/2013

10/18/2013

El Moro Editions' first artist of 2011 was Marcia Harvey. She lives and works in Paso Robles, CA

10/11/2013

The 20/20 Project, begun in 2011, will include an etching by each of El Moro’s visiting artists until the year 2020. These prints will be produced in an edition of 40. Twenty of suites of prints will be distributed to the participating artists; some of the suites will become part of the permanent collections of various institutions and the remainder will be available to the public. It is our hope that the 20/20 Project will foster a dialogue between the participating artists as well as an enhanced interest in and understanding of etching processes and their place in the digital age.