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Commission for Kimpton Hotel Monaco, Salt Lake City, Utah | Photography by Christine So | Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City in Salt Lake City

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Christine So

Commission for Kimpton Hotel Monaco, Salt Lake City, Utah - Photography

Featured In Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT

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The 30 x 22.5" original "Pale Blue Maple" has sold.

This digital image was also licensed for reproduction and now hangs in multiple rooms of the newly remodeled Hotel Monaco in Salt Lake City. The original was scanned at very high resolution at a photo lab. I do lots of image licensing for hospitality.

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The original monotype made in 2022 has sold, but the digital image was licensed by a hotel where framed reproductions hang in dozens of rooms.

I only do limited edition image licensing for hospitality, not open edition licensing agreements. If you are interested in licensing a different high resolution image or commissioning original artwork in this style, contact me with the details of the intended size of your reproduction and number of prints and I will send you my pricing.

Want to commission a similar ORIGINAL artwork?
If you would like to a commission a similar original cyanotype (made using actual cut branches from a Japanese maple tree) on watercolor paper of this same species of tree, up to 40" in one direction, it is only possible to do between June and October. There are only 6 months of the year when it has leaves and I use actual cut branches from a Japanese maple tree to create the cyanotype print. So any commission could not start until summer. This type of tree loses all its leaves November-May.

Though this monoprint looks like a wood cut or screen print, this is actually a form of photography called a cyanotype. Every botanical print is entirely unique made using fresh plants and trees from my own garden laid in that exact composition on the hand-coated light-sensitive paper only once. There is no ink, no printing press and no copper plate or wood block. Exposing and rinsing a sun print this big outdoors — with a sheet of glass even bigger than the paper —is a delicate and complicated affair.

Item Commission for Kimpton Hotel Monaco, Salt Lake City, Utah
Created by Christine So
Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
Hand-Printed Botanical, Landscape and Abstract Cyanotypes

Christine So is a native San Franciscan painter, photographer and printmaker living across the bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her paintings and cyanotypes have been commissioned by Mayo Clinic, Ritz Carlton, Kimpton Hotels, Starbucks, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 15 countries, among them, Timothée Chalamet.

Her calm, monochromatic, nature-inspired works on paper are not printed with ink but are actually a form of photography from the 1800s. She works in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes, creating abstract and botanical monotypes in shades of blue as well as landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. The plants used in her one-off prints are cut from her own garden or found in the woods nearby and printed on pure cotton watercolor paper. No two are alike. Only her landscape photographs developed using giant negatives and the same cyanotype chemicals are replicable, yet even those hand-printed photographs each differ slightly.

Most of the works listed here on Wescover.com are unframed works on paper, specifically cyanotypes. However, Christine So paints in acrylic on canvas and oil on panel as well, and there are about 15 paintings on canvas and panel listed. Most are not framed, but a rare few are. Please read the entire description.

NOTE: Most of the works on paper are sold unframed --although the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their eventual size once a mat and frame are added. Take note of the item's description before purchasing.