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Jill Bergman
@jillbergman.bsky.social
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Colorado printmaker, illustrator and writer. 🤓 All human-made artwork.
www.jillbergman.com
www.alleygallerysteamboat.com
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My studio all ready for November ArtWalk!
#artstudio #printmaking #linocut #artgallery
Art studio/gallery with framed linocuts on the walls. Framed linocut ‘Blue,’ a night scene with a poem in the clouds printed with black no on blue paper with a touch of gouache. 💙
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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New linocut ‘Blue’ on beautiful Awagami paper. See photos here- www.jillbergman.com/shop/blue

In the blue of the evening,
when other colors wash down,
to sleep in cracks of the earth,
we lose sight of some details,
but sense the greater picture.

#printmaking #linocut #poem #blue #illustration
A linocut block and print on blue paper. Linocut on blue paper with a house, outdoor scene, and poem in the sky. There are gouache paints and a little color painted onto the print.
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It’s Wolf Awareness Week! If you haven’t, please read Diane K Boyd’s A Woman among Wolves www.dianekboyd.com or anything by Rick McIntyre www.rickmcintyre.com Let me know your favorite wolf books!
#wolf #wolves #printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #wildlife
A linocut of a black wolf walking in the snow.
October 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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A medicine wheel on the plains outside of Laramie, Wyoming estimated to be 400-700 years old.
#medicinewheel #wyoming
A circle of stones with radiating spokes on the ground, tree and blue sky in the background.
October 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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We reprinted my big desert landscape with color! The bottom is dark green not black. Thanks to Master Printer Sue Oehme for all her amazing skills!
#printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #landscape
Rolling a transitional blue onto the sky of a large carved block with a large roller. The inked block ready to print. The printed landscape with a blue sky, large white cloud, and dark green desert foreground.
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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This fox linocut got some color and landed in a frame!

#printmaking #linocut #fox #wildlife #painting
A linocut of a fox sitting on a rock beside a river, printed in black and painted with colorful gouache. A painted linocut of a fox beside a river framed.
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I gave my #linocut of the historic South Side School outside of Steamboat Springs, Co a little color.
#linoleumprint #printmaking #painting #illustration #steamboatsprings
Linocut of a one room schoolhouse with white ink on black paper and painted with gouache. Reference photo of the one room schoolhouse outside Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Historic photo of the same schoolhouse in Routt County, Colorado.
September 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Gorgeous Colorado landscape outside of Salida. 💚💙

#salidacolorado #colorado #collegiatepeaks #coloradolandscapes
September 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Gone to Seed, influenced by dried, end-of-season wildflowers.
#printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #wildflowers
Linocut in blues and browns of wildflowers gone to seed. The final print is on the left, the two blocks used to create it are on the right.
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Great blue herons are my favorite birds- both elegant and gangly. This one was framed and is migrating from Colorado to beachy Texas.

#printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #greatblueheron #heron #birds #wildlifeart #birdart #steamboatartist #painting
Framed linocut of a great blue heron standing in water.
September 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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We’ve rehung The Alley Gallery and Art Studios- ArtWalk is tonight 9/5 5-8 in Steamboat, CO! Lots of florals by Ann Feldman, Chula Beauregard, & some florals + wildlife by me.
#painting #printmaking #linocut #artgallery #artstudio #steamboatsprings #oilpainting #pleinairpainting #flowers
Jill Bergman’s linocuts of wildlife and florals at The Alley Gallery and Art Studios, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. https://www.alleygallerysteamboat.com/ Ann Feldman and Chula Beauregard’s floral paintings at The Alley Gallery and Art Studios, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. https://www.alleygallerysteamboat.com/ The Alley Gallery and Art Studios, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. https://www.alleygallerysteamboat.com/
September 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Painting this golden eagle linocut. Yesterday we saw one on a telephone pole beside a sea of sagebrush that extended to the horizon.

#linocut #printmaking #goldeneagle #eagle #painting #bird #wildlife
A linocut of a golden eagle on a fence post.
August 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Printing Yampa River Morning and I can feel fall on the way.

#printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #yampariver #colorado #landscape #steamboatsprings
A three color linocut of the Yampa River and fall cottonwoods.
August 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The Yampa River winding through our valley in Northwest Colorado.

#colorado #yampariver #yampavalley
Yampa river, cottonwoods, and an August hillside.
August 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Printing the 3 layer, summery Yampa River Footbridge.

#printmaking #linocut #yampariver #steamboatsprings #colorado
1st layer with sky and river background. 2nd layer adds trees and detail in the river and sky. 3rd layer is the ‘key block’ with most of the line work that finishes off the image. Yampa River Footbridge linocut with blue sky and river, green trees, and a bridge over the river.
August 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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My echinacea are finally blooming, and the world feels like we are around the corner from apocalypse.
#printmaking #linocut #garden #flowers
Linocut with echinacea blooming and two rabbits.
August 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Here is my studio with two versions of the same dramatic cloud hanging. Ann Feldman’s oil painting is on top, and my giant linocut is below.
#painting #printmaking #linocut #artstudio #artgallery #cloud
Art studio with art hanging on a white brick wall. On top is a colorful sunset cloud painting and below is a large black and white linocut print based on the same photo.
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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I’m painting this pika linocut for a lovely customer. I can’t tell you how many people say, ‘oh, I LOVE pika’ after seeing this. They are some truly charismatic critters!
#pika #wildlife #printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #painting
Painting a pika linocut with gouache.
August 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A lovely couple took home the companion to this piece last night, which was great because I love these collages! I’m glad that someone else does too. This is Mountains Dream of the Unfolding Future, and is still available at The Alley!

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#collage #linocut #printmaking
Linocut collage of a coyote against blue mountains.
July 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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We made wonderful, beautiful, messy, organic land art yesterday with a big group of people! We learned about temporary land art and the local biodiversity. Thanks to @yvsustainability.bsky.social and all who came!
#landart #earthart #environmentalart #mandala
July 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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We got a couple good prints of my ginormous linocut! Thanks to Sue Oehme of Oehme Graphics. 🖤

#printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #coloradolandscapes
July 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Wetland, a painted linocut collage with a poem by me.

#sandhillcrane #bird #wetland #collage #linocut #printmaking #poem #poetry
Linocut collage featuring a Sandhill crane walking through water and grasses in a spring wetland. Wetland Jill Bergman Snowmelt and sunlight  feed spring shoots, their delicate, tender green rising up through last year’s matted gray. Tendrils of water braid over the ground, whispering downhill, saturating the thirsty soil, and slow into a pond. Insects wake, toads emerge, tiny minnows shimmer behind a beaver  swimming morning laps. Leggy cranes dance,  their warbling calls  fill the spring meadow where early morning frost melts by noon.
July 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Modern wildfires burn hot, scorching soil and making it hard for the forest to regrow on its own. Luckily, there's a lot humans can do to help.

Check out this story by @jillbergman.bsky.social to learn more about these fires and how we can care for the forests in after they burn.
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July 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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A few photos from Steamroll Steamboat yesterday! I’m in the red shirt inking my block. I didn’t get a good print, but I’ll be printing with a press on Friday and will share photos then. Super fun day and I’m excited it worked!

#printmaking #linocut #woodcut #steamrollerprinting #reliefprint
Rolling black ink on a large landscape relief carving. Hannah Kaufmann holding her print that says, The seeds of liberation are sown in solidarity. Steamroller driving over a block to print. Erin Branscum holding her bear woodcut.
July 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This 34x48 inch linocut is carved! We are printing with the steamroller tomorrow- 7/12 10-1 during Art in the Park, Steamboat Springs, CO.

This image is based on an amazing cloud that I photographed over a desert landscape.

#printmaking #linocut #linoleumprint #reliefprint #steamrollerprinting
Carved linoleum block of a desert landscape with a dramatic cloud. Beautiful sunset cloud over a desert landscape.
July 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM