Ouida Touchon

Delta, Colorado based artist Ouida Touchon combines traditional forms of printmaking and mixed media, with painting, collage, and embroidery to synthesize a medium all her own. More than a printmaker or painter, she sees herself more essentially as a maker of images. Her vibrant reduction woodcuts of women's garments (embellished with text) capture the souls of their inhabitants, oftentimes based on real women who lived and made legend in the frontier days. In this way, she pays homage to the feminine characters that too frequently go unwritten in popular tales of the Wild West. "My art making is complicated with feuding passions. One limb is socially conscious narratives about bad-ass women, either mythical or American west. The other limb fights for the scintillation of the observed; the beauty I see and interpret in a graphic response. More than a printmaker, or painter, I serve as an image maker, and I hope each time, for something remarkable. I enjoy working in the studio at my press or easel, as well as teaching printmaking at colleges and community workshops."

Master of Arts/ Studio (Painting and Printmaking), University of Missouri Kansas City 2003
BFA Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO 2000
International Art School, Summer Session w/ Lennart Anderson, Umbria, Italy 2000
Summer workshops at USD, Vermillion in printmaking (3 summers) Papermaking, Letterpress, Solar Plate Etching, Reduction Printmaking 2004-2007
AA Fashion Design, AA Patternmaking, El Centro College, Dallas, TX 1984

Coors Western Art Exhibition, Denver Colorado, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026
Mixx Atelier, group shows, Telluride CO, March 2023-ongoing
Coors Western Art Exhibition, Denver Colorado, 2020-2026
Arvada Center, Arvada, CO, ‘528.0’- Printmaking exhibition, 2020
ArtGymDenver, Nude vs Naked, 2019
Palace Press, Santa Fe, NM, Poems & Prints, Poetry Broadsides, 2019
Arts Benicia, Benicia CA, In the Fields, Botanical Lore, 2018
1+1=1 Gallery,The Body, group show, 2018, Helena MT
Gallery 110, Greetings from the Anthropocene, group show, 2017 Seattle, WA
Gallery at Big Picture, Paint, Pixels and Ink, 2017, Las Cruces, NM
Parkside Art Gallery, 25th National Parkside Small Print Exhibition, 2017, U.of W. Kenosha
1+1=1 Gallery,The Body, group show, 2017, Helena MT