Artist Member
We seek our land
European field hares in the Frankfurt metropolitan region seeking suitable habitat.
9.5 x 9.5″ (closed), edition of 4 (one copy in private collection)
Handmade, pulp-painted paper, accordion binding.
Shelter-norishment-curiosity
Syrian refugees in Germany in 2016 – emerging from chaos, exploring, shaping new futures.
8 x 10″ (closed), edition of 5
Acrylic resist etching, BFK Rives and Yamashiro papers, accordion binding.
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Loss of memory, identity, ability through brain disease.
7 x 10″ (closed), edition of 2 (one copy at Klingspor Museum for Typography and Book Arts, Offenbach, Germany)
Pulp-painting, acrylic resist etching. Hahnemühle paper, handmade paper, transparent paper, Coptic binding
Renate Klein 
BIO
Renate Klein combines printmaking, paper-making and story-telling in unique or small edition artist books. With a background in the social sciences, she has studied print-making, books arts, paper-making, painting and design in the U.S. with Kris Engman, Susan Groce, Audrey Niffenegger, Lisa Raven, Abbie Read, Stephanie Stigliano, Walter Tisdale and Beck Whitehead, and in Germany with Barbara Fahrner, John Gerard, Claudia Klee, Marlis Maehrle, Uta Schneider, and Eberhard Wagner. She lives in Maine.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My sources of inspiration are observations related to social and natural history, ecology. The pieces develop in a process of merging research, illustration, abstract imagery and what the medium affords or suggests; it is also about approaching painful subject matter with an open, patient, and courageous mind.