Printmaker and gardener, Emily Gray Koehler, uses her passion for nature to explore themes of environmental and ecological importance through colorful reduction woodcuts and collagraphs. Learn more about what inspires her...

In this series of intimate reduction woodcut portraits, Koehler explores the beneficial insects and arachnids observed in her gardens. While most every insect and spider serves some function in the garden landscape, she focuses specifically on the creatures who aid in the development of a healthy and productive garden with the humble understanding that the primary driver of such spaces are the humans, the gardeners who cultivate them.