WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Ted Ramsay

The Paper Quest: Global Journeys Making Handmade Paper

October 11 - November 18, 2023

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery on Friday evening October 13, from 5-7 pm. 

All invited to the opening reception, which is free and open to the public.

Artist Talk: Sunday October 15, 2023, 2 pm, free and open to the public.

Masks are optional

Artist Statement:

The Paper Quest: Global Journeys Making Handmade Paper is

an exhibit about my work as an artist and papermaker, teaching as well as

attending paper making workshops around the world. Materials and techniques

of sheet forming reflected the location of the mills I visited, ranging from ancient

paper making villages in Thailand, Myanmar, and China, to contemporary mills

in Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, Tasmania, Japan, and the United States.

My interest in paper began as a search for unique surfaces on which to draw

and paint. This led me to study the history of paper and to acquire my own

Hollander beater with which I created my own paper surfaces. As I researched

the development and technical processes of paper I realized I could make

art images on or in the surface or make the paper itself become the

art image with unique possibilities beyond my original conceptions. And so the

quest began. A selected group of these paper making art works are presented

in the this exhibit.

— Ted Ramsay, 2023