Ryan Kalentkowski is a printmaker and hand-colorist living and working in the Lower Connecticut River Valley of Connecticut.
“Through the labor of woodcut printmaking and hand-coloring, my current work is centered primarily around my relationship to birds. Stemming from an early childhood fixation with learning about and imitating birds, my woodcut images are built by way of expressive mark-making and color. Their titles often share my own “names” for specific birds, nodding to their traits and symbolism. This work advocates respect and admiration for nature and the environment.”