Sabra Field
Printmaker Sabra Field has received acclaim both nationally and internationally for her work. She has lived in Vermont since 1969 and is probably best known in Vermont as the designer of the 1991 Vermont Bicentennial stamp.
In the fall of 2004 Sabra’s visual autobiography titled In Sight was published by University of New England. The book explores the her creative process whereby the one hundred or so Field prints, crafted between 1990 and 2002, came into being. New prints, all previously unpublished, are exquisitely reproduced, one per page, in a celebration of a woman at the height of her creative powers. The book includes personal commentaries about her process and her life as well as an explanation fo her newest way of producing her art: using the electronic medium of IRIS ink jet prints in collaboration with Jon Cone of Cone Editions in East Topsham, Vermont. Sabra Field lives with Spencer, her husband of over 30 years, in a house that includes her studio in E. Barnard, Vermont.
In Sight explores the enchanting creative process whereby the one hundred or so Field prints, crafted between 1990 and 2002, came into being. The exceptional new prints, all previously unpublished, are exquisitely reproduced, one per page, in a celebration of an artist at the height of her creative powers. A short commentary by the artist on her inspiration for the image faces each of her own works. Embedded in the text are fine color reproductions of the collateral images that set Field’s creative process on fire for each plate–works of art that moved and inspired Field, her preliminary sketches, historic photographs, scientific diagrams, even old favorite Field prints. Also included are excerpts from her personal journals along with an astonishing array of private readings.
