RUSSELL CHATHAM'S work is characterized by an overall feeling of tranquility. Born in San Francisco in 1939, he began exhibiting formally in 1958 and since then has had over 400 shows in museums, art centers, galleries and universities throughout the west and in New york, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. His work has also been exhibited in Europe and the Orient. Chatham began printmaking in 1981 and is today regarded as one of the world's foremost printmakers.

Since 1967 his work has been profiled in Esquire, Southwest Art, People, US Art, Architectural Digest, The San Francisco Chronicle, The LA Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Associated Press, National Public Radio and CBS Sunday morning. He is founder and publisher of Clark City Press, which, since 1989 has published 35 books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, photography, and children's classics.

ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS are created through a complex process beginning with the creation of a drawing which acts as the first plate, usually printed in black which serves as the map for everything that follows. What follows are the color plates, each one drawn by hand and taking as little as thirty minutes or as much as thirty hours, depending on their complexity. The final Original Lithograph may take as many as fifty-four plates for completion, and can easily require two hundred hours of both the printer's and the artist's time.