Teacher, Painter, Author, and Master Printmaker

Dan Welden, teacher, painter, author and master printmaker, is the originator of solarplate printmaking in the United States. He is the Co-Author with Pauline Muir of “Printmaking in the Sun” published by Watson Guptill in 2001, the comprehensive manual of solarplate methods.
     As a teacher, Dan continues to inspire students around the world in workshops where he demonstrates how to make solarplates and print both intaglio and relief plates. His month-long summer workshops at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy, are attended by students from Europe, Australia and America. He has taught printmaking at several colleges in the New York area including Stony Brook University, Suffolk Community College, Long Island University Southampton, and Central Connecticut State University. His demonstrations at the New York State Art Teacher’s Association Conferences, Southern Graphics Council and Mid America Print Council Conferences inspire teachers, students and artists to make prints using the safer and greener methods of solarplate etching without the use of acids or other dangerous chemicals.
     Dan is past president of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and has shown his work in more than 60 one-person exhibits and over 350 Group exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, China, Australia, New Zealand and Peru. As master printmaker/owner  at Hampton Editions, Ltd. in Sag Harbor, Long Island, he has collaborated with artists Robert Dash, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jimmy Ernst, James Brooks, Dan Flavin, Esteban Vicente, William King, Ibram Lassaw, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfonso Ossorio, Jane Freilicher, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Louisa Chase, Linda Benglis and many others.