Solarplate Printmaking

Dan Welden is a master printmaker, painter, teacher, author and pioneer of safer art making processes. His work has been shown in over 65 international solo exhibitions in museums and galleries and over 500 group exhibitions in 13 countries on 5 continents. His paintings and prints are in the collections of The International Printmaking Base in Guanlan, China; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon; ‘the Greater Museum of Art’ in Lafayette, Indiana and Temple University, Philadelphia, among others.

As the director of Hampton Editions Ltd. he has collaborated with artists Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Kurt Vonnegut, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Jimmy Ernst, James Brooks, Dan Flavin, Esteban Vincente, William King, Ibram Lassaw, David Salle and many others.

Dan continues to inspire artists, teachers and students around the world in workshops where he demonstrates how to make Solarplates and print both intaglio and relief plates. As an original pioneer of  safer and greener methods, he has been in the forefront of printmaking without the use of acids or other dangerous chemicals .