James William Beard

Welcome to my homepage!

My primary work as an artist is in printmaking. I have a background in screen printing, letterpress printing, and in risograph printing. I'm a frequent publisher of zines, art prints, and other works through my imprint, Mystic Multiples. When time allows, I like to dabble in other mediums, including: papermaking, ceramics, installation art, and sounds.

I created this site as a home for my art, thoughts, and notes for future projects. I'm by no means a web developer, but I think it's important for the future of the web that we work to create our own, self-made and hosted sites. This static site collects no data from you, nor shares any data with any entity. This ethos for websites overlaps with my own ethos as an artist.

Some of these ideas fall under the banner of the IndieWeb, which I wrote briefly on in the blog Thinking about the IndieWeb.

For now, this site is set up as a chronological blog. Below, you'll find the most recent entries, with the full collection available in the Archive. You may also explore through tags, which are fully available on the tags page.

Latest 5 Posts

  1. Tropical Myst
    2. Blue photographic cyanotype of a walkway through tropical foliage disappearing into mist.
  2. The White Egret
    3. Black and white photograph of a white egret in a diorama.
  3. an alluvial flame
    4. A small ceramic vessel in red and white.
  4. Tropical Plants
    5. A photograph of various tropical plants, with red and green leaves on the floor of a greenhouse.
  5. New studio assistant
    6. Cat buried in a collection of prints

5 more posts can be found in the archive.