Ron Shaull

Flora Scioto #1 | Ecodye prints on sulphite paper, 2023

These prints were created through eco-dyeing, a process that involves clamping native Ohio tree and shrub leaves between layers of white sulphite paper and plywood, then boiling these “packets” in rust water to transfer the plant colors. Hydrangea, coleus, cherry, maple and oak leaves were used, and often overlapped. I call this collection of prints Flora Scioto #1 because all of the plant material used in making them was collected in the Scioto River watershed in central Ohio.

I retired in 2018 after 25 years in communications and marketing at OSU Wexner Medical Center.