Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura

Title: Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura | Date: 1970-1971 | Technique: wood-engraving, printed in intaglio in black ink, from multiple bamboo blocks; over lithograph or aquatint etching, printed in colour from three plates
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Title

Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura

Date made

1970 – 1970-1971

Place made

Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print types

planographic or intaglio | relief

Technique

wood-engraving, printed in intaglio in black ink, from multiple bamboo blocks; over lithograph or aquatint etching, printed in colour from three plates

Text printed from matrix

No inscription

Edition information

edition of 60; 5 artist's proofs

Production notes

this print uses an intaglio technique, allegedly invented by Palmer, where a bamboo shoot is split, flattened, engraved, then printed with a simple press. See Peter Cape, Prints and Printmakers in New Zealand (Auckland: Collins, 1974)

Subject category

Landscape: water

Subject description

Landscape of a creek, silver tree fern and sky at Karamatura Reserve, at Huia, a settlement on the coast 45km south-west from Auckland, New Zealand

Legacy id

217298

Last Updated

20 Nov 2025

Impressions

Title: Creek, punga and cloud - Karamatura | Date: 1970-1971 | Technique: wood-engraving, printed in intaglio in black ink, from multiple bamboo blocks; over lithograph or aquatint etching, printed in colour from three plates
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State

published state

Impression

11/60

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