Flatbed Press Recent Publications 2016 | Page 46

John Robert Craft and Heather Parrish, with assistants, placing

Diamond Back on the large Tackach Press.

Craft lives with his family on a commercial cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle. He lives in the house he grew up in, with the same address and telephone number.

In his artistic practice as a sculptor and printmaker, Craft possesses an innate interest in the ferrous metals, used to create an inseparable dialogue between his two and three-dimensional work. His sculptural work is abstract, solid and heavy, influenced by studies of geology and the metallurgy of his primary medium: ferrous metals. Within his printmaking practice, these solid cast