Anna Pausch is a woodblock printmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the sensory experience of landscape and humanity’s relationship to the natural world. Raised in New York’s Finger Lakes region among backpackers and environmental scientists, she developed an early connection to ecology and place. She earned her BFA in Printmaking with a minor in Fibers from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015 and is now based in Denver, Colorado, where the high-altitude deserts and expansive terrain of the West continue to inspire her work.

For Anna, carving each woodblock is an intimate and deeply human process. Drawing on time spent hiking, along with field sketches and photographs, she approaches the block with the same awareness as moving through a landscape—adjusting her grip to the wood grain, as if stepping over roots or navigating around rocks. Printed on paper and cloth, her impressionistic woodcuts serve as an homage to place, capturing both the feeling of being there and the subtle impact of human presence on the environment.