Martha Ives

Martha Ives studied Art at Antioch College, the School of Visual Arts, and the Art Students League. Early in her career, watercolor was her medium of choice, but when she attended the Art Students League and began printmaking, she fell in love with the excitement and surprise of making hand-pulled prints. Initial satisfaction came from intaglio printmaking, producing black and white images from etched copper plates. With multi-block relief printmaking, color once again became an important part of her process. Currently, she enjoys making white-line woodcuts--a technique that uses watercolor rather than ink on wood and creates a more painterly and textured look for her relief printmaking.

She is the winner of the 2017 Gold Medal for Graphics from Audubon Artists, the 2014 Will Barnet Printmaking Grant from the Art Students League, and the 2022 Giulia Palermo Memorial Award in Graphics from Audubon Artists. Her work has also received Honorable Mentions from the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, the Salmagundi Club, and The Mark Twain Library.
Her work has appeared in many juried shows and in 2018 she was one of five printmakers in the New York area invited to show and sell their work at Print Club of New York’s Annual Artist Showcase.

Her work is in the collections of Syracuse University and The Newark Public Library.