intaglio and watercolor

Briony Morrow-Cribbs is an artist, illustrator, and printmaker who runs Twin Vixen Press and occasionally teaches etching workshops. Raised on Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound, she earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and currently lives in southern Vermont.

This softground and aquatint etching depicts Lophoplusia pterylota, a moth native to Hawaiʻi. I was drawn to its delicacy and to the beautiful purples and reds of its upper wings.