Root Orchards Tree 2024
Andreas Engel

Pen and ink on paper
9″x12″

$950 framed.
Interested? Email your request here.

Limited edition prints are now available!
Archival giclée prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper
Paper size: 13” x 9.5”
Image size: 11” x 8” (slightly smaller than original)
Limited to 5 prints/image, hand-signed by the artist
Price subject to availability (base price $125)
Request print availability and price here.

A personal note about this piece:

There is an offshoot to a mountain trail I frequent in the Berkshires that conjures visions of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden.”  In that place, there is an orchard—atop a wild field—that feels abandoned, yet growth is everywhere. In this piece, I aimed to capture a feeling of lush abandonment, with every mark an invitation to explore and discover.–Æ

Phragmites Plume 2024
Andreas Engel

Pen and ink on paper
9″x12″

$850 framed.
Interested? Email your request here.

Limited edition prints are now available!
Archival giclée prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper
Paper size: 13” x 9.5”
Image size: 11” x 8” (slightly smaller than original)
Limited to 5 prints/image, hand-signed by the artist
Price subject to availability (base price $125)
Request print availability and price here.

A personal note about this piece:

I almost didn’t attempt this piece because I wasn’t sure whether I could pack in all the visual information, maintain the softness, and still have it “read” with any kind of compositional definition. What I found in making it was that I had to trust that my marks—abstract in the closeness of the work—would eventually amount to something. In some ways, I was drawing blind—looking at the source and not my hand at times, and not using a visual reference at all for the times I did look at my hand. It feels as if I could continue making marks, indefinitely, sculpting depth into the grass, adding twigs or new areas of contrast…it’s hard to say that it’s finished. –Æ

Housatonic Riverbank 2024
Andreas Engel

Pen and ink on paper
9″x12″

$800 framed.
Interested? Email your request here.

Limited edition prints are now available!
Archival giclée prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper
Paper size: 13” x 9.5”
Image size: 11” x 8” (slightly smaller than original)
Limited to 5 prints/image, hand-signed by the artist
Price subject to availability (base price $125)
Request print availability and price here.

A personal note about this piece:

In many ways, this piece is a compilation of memories from my frequent visits to a particular sandy bank on the Housatonic River. Every time I visit there, I’m attracted to something new—sounds, sights, things in the water, patterns in the sand, reflections, evidence of life, and so much more. In the creation of this piece, I took a risk by offering multiple perspectives at once to capture all of those impressions, resulting in a distorted, dream-like vision.–Æ

Tree Study #1 2024
Andreas Engel

Pen and ink on paper
9″x12″

$650 framed.
Interested? Email your request here.

Limited edition prints are now available!
Archival giclée prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper
Paper size: 13” x 9.5”
Image size: 11” x 8” (slightly smaller than original)
Limited to 5 prints/image, hand-signed by the artist
Price subject to availability (base price $125)
Request print availability and price here.

A personal note about this piece:

This drawing began as a study of the bark of an old weeping willow tree behind a gas station in Great Barrington, MA. I was drawn to the trunk’s twists and turns, the gnarly burls, knobby roots, and spindly branches. As I explored textures in other such drawings, I found myself returning to them to create invented, more fuller compositions. In the case of this study, I invented the surroundings to create the finished composition—the result of which inspired me to produce a full series of detailed drawings. –Æ

Tree Study #2 2024
Andreas Engel

Pen and ink on paper
7″x12″

$500 framed.
Interested? Email your request here.

Limited edition prints are now available!
Archival giclée prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper
Paper size: 13” x 9.5”
Image size: 11” x 6.5” (slightly smaller than original)
Limited to 5 prints/image, hand-signed by the artist
Price subject to availability (base price $125)
Request print availability and price here.

A personal note about this piece:

The second piece of the series (but in may ways, the first completed work), I approached this for the challenge of capturing dense foliage textures through line. The effect of the “study” was more of a feeling of a finished composition, which inspired me to return to the first study (“Tree Study #1) and approach my “studies” as completed works. –Æ