Jim Meyer

Jim Meyer is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Very much drawn to the process of carving designs from wood and printing on paper, he began making woodcuts in the early 1990s, while working as a commercial artist. He became interested in pursuing work to sell in galleries and soon made that transition, focusing on studies of the American landscape. Much of his subject matter is drawn from Minnesota’s North Shore, but he has also made editions of prints of the ocean shorelines and mountain ranges of the West, and East coast ocean shores.Major inspirations have been Gustave Baumann, who specialized in color woodcuts of the American Southwest; Walter J. Philips, a Canadian woodcut artist, Hiroshi Yoshida and Shiko Munakata – both Japanese woodcut masters, and The Group of Seven – Canadian landscape painters. All of them active in the 20th century.Jim is represented in galleries in Minnesota, Washington State, and Wisconsin.Studied art at the University of Minnesota, Wheaton College, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design.