Yama Prints has downsized its printing operations. We continue to print etchings, reliefs, collagraphs and monoprints but on a limited basis. We continue to have a large selection of limited edition prints for sale. Please contact us for prices.

I am proud to share with you the publication of

The Wednesday Poems published by lulu.com.

These poems use minimalistic words and structure to explore and express emotional depths of love, family, life and death. They are as much, perhaps more, about exultations rather than expirations. As with my visual imagery, these poems are layered with word-images, emotions and ideas, written during a severe illness and subsequent death of a loved one. 

Writing these poems helped me realize more than ever previously, the power of creative expression to soothe and self-transform. These powers are inherent as well in the processes of sharing, seeing and reading. This deepened recognition, borne of these poems and processes, led me to develop a new career as an art therapist.

The profound love described in these pages aroused in me a hyper-sensitivity, “april turned to may / in a teardrop /  blessed with scents / lilacs and lilies / constant glow of consolation / of comfort/  of love beyond endurance /…” concurrent with a numbness due to the depth of the loss, “…the greatest/intensity and vagueness/ at once / or in tandem / all of time / consolidates /…”

These phenomena created something never before experienced, something strange and hopeful:

“…not the end of the world /nor the beginning / but a new world // strangely / you feel / reborn /…”

Presented in mostly chronological order, from observations in an Intensive Care Unit through a roller coaster of emotions experienced as a commuting caregiver for an elderly parent, then expressing the enormity of love and of loss along the year following death. Throughout are poems regarding memories, familial bonds and transformation. Nature winds among many pages, providing comfort, as in the following poem:                            

                                                                       

The Wednesday Poems book is available for $16.52 (plus shipping) in the US at Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/Wednesday-Poems-Betty-Winkler/dp/0557074282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s =books&qid=1259724958&sr=1-1

It is available elsewhere online and internationally online for approximately $20 (US) at http://www.bookfinder4u.com/IsbnSearch.aspx?isbn=9780557074280&mode=direct

Besides working as an art therapist, I am also a visual artist, educator, poet and master printer of printmaking. I am available for readings.

PLEASE NOTE: Previous editions, no longer available, were hand-printed, including covers, for select distribution to family and friends.

New suite of limited edition prints available: "Beaches" by Betty Winkler

Beaches is a suite of six hand-pulled prints portraying sands, waters, textures and atmospheres at specific locales. The vantage point is that of being in the element, standing on the sand and looking down or, in the water images,
being in or near the water looking outward.

Colors are accurate to each unique environment, impacted by climate and saturation.

Another aspect of the suite is water as printmaker, the imprinting of the land by the moving sea. This adds to the inferences of time and of relationships between earth and water.

Each suite comes with a colophon sheet letterpress printed on Nideggan paper. Suites are encased in a white folio.

Suite Retail Price: $ 3800. Please contact us for more information.