My first solo exhibition at Malaspina Printmakers Society on Granville Island in Vancouver, BC. The exhibition took place on July 2 to August 15, 2020.

Each print is silkscreen printed on cotton paper with ink paste made from plant originated in British Columbia or central valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.

This exhibition, titled Mapping Colours, is a series of Edward Fu-Chen Juan’s recent prints depicting landscapes that reflect ink pastes made from wild endemic plants from selected regions. His two areas of study are the southern coast of British Columbia and the central highland of Oaxaca, Mexico. Edward’s concept was cultivated from an ongoing working relationship with a Zapotecan artisan weaving community in Teotitlan del Valle. There, the Oaxaqueño weavers forage native local plants and insects to extract pigments for their dye colours. These traditional techniques motivated Edward to develop a personal art practice in print media on paper.

Over the past year, Edward has selected endemic flora of the two regions from which he extracted colour. He utilized these natural materials to create his silkscreen prints. From the print series he is demonstrating the importance of traditional craftsmanship through a contemporary art practice. Edward Fu-Chen Juan is an emerging artist based in Vancouver. He has a bachelor of fine arts degree from California Institute of the Arts (Calarts). From 2013 to 2019 he created a paper and textile artisan business called Forest & Waves in which he collaborated with artisans around the globe. He was particularly drawn to the spirit of working with natural materials.

Malaspina Printmakers Society and I acknowledge we are located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam [musqueam.bc.ca]), Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish [squamish.net]), and səlilwətaɁɬ / selílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh [twnation.ca]) nations.