Fumi Matsumoto — JG Art Gallery + Events™
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JG Art Gallery

Rooster And Ferns · Mixed Media on Paper – Ink Drawing with Watercolor Wash · $550

Fumi Matsumoto

Printmaker · Woodblock & Linocut · Alaska

Available at JG Art Gallery + Events™

JG Art Gallery + Events™ · Bainbridge Island, WA · Park City, UT · jgartgallery.com

The Artist

Fumi Matsumoto is an Alaska-based printmaker working in woodblock and linocut on an unusual substrate: recycled teabag paper. Friends and collectors save used teabags for her — the lighter sheets from green and herbal teas, the darker sheets from black teas like Earl Grey — and she assembles them into surfaces that carry their own color and texture before the printing begins. The process is as much about material consciousness as it is about imagery.

Her subjects are the Corvids of Alaska — ravens, jays, magpies, crows — birds she observes closely for what she describes as their intelligence and adaptability. These are not decorative birds. They are specific animals studied with the attention of a naturalist and rendered with the economy of a printmaker who must commit every line to the carved block before ink touches paper.

The Work

The teabag prints are small and intimate — the substrate imposes its own scale. Each sheet carries the traces of its previous life: the slight discoloration, the texture of the paper, the variation between sheets assembled from different teas. The printed image sits on and within this surface rather than on top of it, and the result is a layered object that rewards close looking.

The pen and ink works in the Matsumoto inventory at JG extend the same sensibility to a different medium: precise linear drawing that shares the printmaker’s commitment to the irreversible mark. You cannot erase ink; you cannot re-carve a block. Both practices require the same preparation and the same confidence in the final gesture.

Medium

Woodblock Print on Teabag Paper
Pen and Ink on Paper

Studio

Alaska — wildlife-adjacent studio

Subject

Corvid birds: ravens, jays, magpies
Alaskan wildlife

Practice

Recycled teabag paper printmaking
Eco-conscious material sourcing