He lives on Cape Cod where he makes his prints, builds wooden boats, and sails. Over the years he has had numerous one-man shows and has exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, and the 2011 International Moku Hanga Exhibition in Kyoto, Japan. Ray Heus' work is included in several public collections including the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Through investigation of printing techniques dating back to the Edo period (1603-1868) for the style known as Ukiyo-e, this class will explore and demonstrate a close appreciation of nature in the practice. His primary medium is moku hanga, the traditional Japanese way of making color woodblock prints. Art and nature come together in this hands-on exploration of Mokuhanga printmaking, also known as Japanese woodblock printing. This is the second part of an essay in which the author, Dieter Wanczura, presents a thesis for a new mass market for Japanese woodblock prints, a popular moku hanga movement - comparable to the concept of ukiyo-e (images of the floating world) in the 18th and 19th century. Influences from western artists include Whistler, Homer, and Arthur Wesley Dow. Moku Hanga are the Japanese words for 'woodblock prints'. Heus’ work reveals the influence and his great admiration for 19th and 20th century Japanese master printmakers, especially Hiroshi and Toshi Yoshida, Kawase Hasui, and Takahashi Shotei. A graduate of Cornell University, he also studied at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and with Washington, D.C. Ray Heus was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and grew up in the Virgin Islands and in western Massachusetts. Ray Heus is a New England printmaker with over 30 years experience. Heus' work reveals his love for sailing and the water in his woodblocks of New England, Canadian coastal areas and the Carribbean.
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