Etched From the Skyline Sarah Finger for Powder Magazine
Project Info
Client:
Powder Magazine
Year:
2024
Project type:
Editorial
Block printing, place, and ski culture converge in Sarah Finger’s Pacific Northwest art.
Shot for Powder Magazine, this feature profiles Bellingham-based printmaker Sarah Finger, whose woodcut work is deeply tied to the landscapes and rhythms of the Pacific Northwest. Working from her home studio, Sarah’s process blends patience, repetition, and intuition, values that closely mirror mountain culture and time spent outdoors. The imagery focuses on quiet moments of making, from carved blocks and inked hands to the finished prints that eventually found their way onto a ski topsheet. The result is an intimate portrait of an artist whose work is shaped as much by place and process as by outcome.
“Creating artwork for skis … was fun and flowed easily, making exactly what I wanted, and fulfilling a dream of mine as an artist.”
“I just kept taking classes because I loved it and never thought I would do it professionally.”