Ouida Touchon

Ouida Touchon

"Art is complicated. My own art is a bifurcated passion. One limb is socially conscious narratives about strong women and what strong women wear, and the other is a pure addiction to the scintillation of the observed, the beauty I see and then interpret in a graphic response. More than a printmaker or painter, I think of myself as a maker of images."

Ouida Touchon enjoys working at the press as well as teaching printmaking at colleges and studio workshops. It’s one of those things that allows her to dive deep into process—carving, inking, and printing assorted images. She dwells in print traditions that date back to the 15th century and brings hery own sensibility to each image, always with a mind for beauty and composition.

Collections
El Paso Museum of Art, downtown El Paso, El Paso, Texas, 2006
Taylor-Barela-Reynolds-Mesilla State Monument (TBRM), Historic adobe home of J.Paul Taylor and his family, Mesilla, New Mexico, 2007
Federal Building, Church Street , Las Cruces, NM, 2011
Awards
Craft Boston, Boston Convention Center, Boston, 2014
Artist Residency, London , London, England, 2015
American Craft Council Show, Atlanta, Georgia, 2015