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Kelda Martensen is a print, paper and book artist currently living in St. Louis, Missouri. Kelda was born in Tacoma, Washington and received her BA at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, with semesters in Ireland and South Africa. After college, Kelda spent five years living in various places from Hokkaido, Japan to Anchorage, Alaska and working as a cabinet door shaper, park ranger, and art teacher. Kelda is currently in her thesis year at Washington University in St. Louis to receive her MFA in Visual Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

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Escape from Cape Town, 2008
58" x 145 1/2" (left print 58" x 72", right print 58" x 71 1/2")
Collagraph, digital print, monotype, woodblock, chine colle, collage, graphite drawing Unique edition

Escape from Cape Town (detail)

Foreclosure (winter is coming), 2008
27 3/4" x 26 1/2"
Monotype, digital print, collage, birch veneer, gesso, dye
Unique edition

Togiak (dream of a ghost), 2008
76 3/4" x 49"  (top print 38 1/2" x 49", bottom print 36 1/4" x 49")
Monotype, digital print, collage, woodblock, linocut, graphite drawing
Unique edition

Togiak (dream of a ghost, detail)