Diatom Press

Freshly pressed linocut and letterpress from Paekākāriki, New Zealand

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Just finished these Coprinellus mushrooms in time for tomorrow's Botanist Market at the Miramar and Maupia community centre. (I know they aren't plants, but fungi have fallen under the auspices of botanists so I'll ignore phylogeny in this instance).
A limpid Gliophorus (I think) living among the liverworts (Pallavicinia) at Battle Hill, Pauatahanui. Great weather for fungi at the moment. #fungi #newzealandfungi #mushrooms #fungiofaotearoa
The Lockdown Alphabet A-F in situ. Link in profile.
I had a run on the inanga yesterday, but I still have a few left. I'm at Thistle Hall Gallery in Upper Cuba Street today until 7 pm and all day tomorrow, so drop in and see freshly printed fish, ferns and phytoplankton. #linocut #lovekapitiarts #in
It's a sunny day at Thistle Hall in Cuba Street, why not drop in to the Diatom Pres exhibition? From Adana to Azolla and everything inbetween! Open 10 am to 6 pm until Saturday. #letterpress #adana #lovekapitiarts #linocut #azolla
Just a few of the prints available to view or purchase at Diatom Press's exhibition at Thistle Hall Gallery, upper Cuba Street in sunny Wellington. Open all this week and Saturday. Drop in and see the entire Lockdown Alphabet, the new carbon sink org
Three rather blunt posters inspired by COP26, linocuts with letterpress, ready for next week's Diatom Press exhibition at Thistle Hall gallery in Wellington (opening at 6 pm on Monday open Tuesday to Saturday). #linocut #linocut #climatechange
All set up for the Kapiti Arts Trail this weekend. If you're in the area, why not drop in to Diatom Press at 34 Ocean Road in sunny Paekakariki? Prints and cards for sale or just admire some old printing presses. #lovekapitiarts #linocut #letterpress
Emiliania huxleyi, a coccolithophorid. This group of photosynthetic marine plankton are enclosed by ornate calcium carbonate scales. Fossil deposits of these scales form chalk - a major carbon sink. A new linocut print finished just in time for the K
Azolla rubra - that floating red weed you sometimes see on ponds - is an aquatic fern with a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial symbiont. 49 million years ago a giant Azolla bloom began in the nearly landlocked Arctic ocean. Geologists suggest the massiv
Getting ready for the Kapiti Arts Trail: a new print of the diatom Arachnoidiscus (actually my first diatom print). Diatoms might be tiny, but are found anywhere there is water - marine, freshwater, estuaries, puddles and even wet films on leaves, an
A three colour linocut of the native kidney fern, Raurenga, or Hymenophyllum nephrophyllum, formerly known as Trichomanes reniforme (and also Cardiomanes reniforme). On Japanese Awagami kitakata paper. #linocut #fern #kidneyfern #newzealandnativeplan