Printmaking – Shanna Compton

INKY 2: Room Tone in June + On Loss & Found Materials

SUBSCRIBE TO INKY here. This is the website version of my once-a-month email newsletter called INKY. For the first few months I will be cross-posting them here as well. The newsletter is free, only once per month, and invites readers

Upcoming Exhibitions: Late Summer into Fall

What a whirlwind summer! I kept up…with almost everything? Currently, my monotype “Granite Outcrop, Wallamatogus” is part of the Mountain Love exhibition at the Blue Hill Public Library through the end of this month, and my new multiblock linocut “Bee

Drawn to Maine: Contemporary Drawing & Printmaking

I’m very excited to be included in this exhibition (with some of my favorite Maine artists!) at Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset. Drawn to Maine runs simultaneously with a new exhibit of plein air paintings on the first floor. The

Schedule of 2024 Shows, Fairs & Shops

A slice of deep blue starry sky with a bright central moon and silhouetted dark trees below.

Happy Summer! 🌞 Here is my event schedule so far, and I could not be more excited. More about each of these as we roll along into my favorite Maine season. Hi Water Press + Bloof Books will be at

Spring schedule in progress

Rounded clumps of pale green reindeer lichen in dappled sunlight.

We’re finally seeing the first flowers here in Maine—forsythia, daffodils, hyacinths—even the first few little wild violets are springing up. The mosses and lichens seem softer and more vibrantly green every day. I’m soaking up all the fresh energy to

A union of artists

Side one of the UMVA trifold brochure design by Shanna Compton, 2024.

Here’s a brochure I designed for the Union of Maine Visual Artists, and I’ve also been on the committee for a new website that is being designed. It’s all gonna look quite spiffy, I think, and be a much better

Closed Caption collage series

Several of the collages spread out on a black, tan, and light blue woven rug. Each features a title styled like a closed-caption sound effect, in a black box with white all-caps type surrounded by brackets.

I’m working on a series of 50 collages using found imagery and closed-caption sound effects, which will be going to the first 50 people to preorder (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) from Black Lawrence. A visual take on the method behind many