Artwork copyright Peggy Hitchcock. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2016.

Seed, 1990

Peggy Hitchcock
American (born 1951)

Location: Hawthorne Elementary, Seattle

About the Artwork

Artist Peggy Hitchcock's Seed is comprised of screen-printed wood panels. The imagery such as apples, gears, and Egyptian art is sourced from photocopies. It explores scale while combining familiar and abstracted images. Hitchcock organizes and assembles multiple panels featuring different but also connected imagery into what she terms a "constellation."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Seattle Public Schools.

About the Artist

Northwest artist Peggy Hitchcock creates paintings and wall sculptures that explore pattern and form. In most of her artworks, she uses silkscreened and photocopied images based on books, magazines, and other media. She has a library of hundreds of screens that reference history, decorative patterns, the natural world, and much more. Hitchcock explains that part of the beauty of art is that it is "language for our eyes." She grew up in Ohio and has lived and worked in Seattle since the early 1980s.