Hi Water Press

Shanna Compton (our publisher) is a poet, printmaker, and book artist in Blue Hill, Maine. Her visual arts practice includes linocut, monotype, collage, hand-lettering, mixed-media analog+digital work, and handmade books. In every medium, she explores a vital connection to nature, the expressive possibilities of ink and paper, and a deep fascination with language, letterforms, and sound.

Hi Water Press is the imprint under which Bloof offers Shanna’s original artwork and nonbook goods. Periodic shop updates will include new art prints, handmade cards, broadsides, and hand-printed textiles. You can also catch Hi Water Press at local art fairs & festivals in Maine. (2023 schedule TK.)

All artwork ©2023 Shanna Compton. For commissions, licensing inquiries, or tattoo permissions, please get in touch via the contact form.

International shipping note: The Bloof/Hi Water site can’t currently handle postage calculations for international orders, but feel free to email us. We’re happy to calculate shipping based on your address outside the US.

Jump to section: Hand-Printed Works • Greeting Cards • Fine Art Prints

Linocuts, Monotypes & Collages

Greeting Cards & Ephemera

Fine Art Prints

These museum-quality archival inkjet reproductions of my artwork are printed and shipped by Pixels / Fine Art America, which also offers many framing options. They are gorgeous in person, and I offer them at my local shows. I recommend choosing the natural layouts and the archival matte paper. Clicking any image below will take you to my art print selection on the Pixels / FAA site. Please note: the purchase and fulfillment is separate from anything purchased from Bloof or Hi Water, subject to their policies. (If you’d like a signed unframed print, get in touch. I ship those from here.)

The Night Piece, to Julia collage features hand-cut pieces of monotype papers in grays and blues, as well as torn pieces from antique books. The composition forms a seascape with a silver moon in the upper left in a dark domed sky over blue waves. Some dark rocky islands and sandy beach in the foreground complete the image, which floats on a white background.
The Night Piece, to Julia
The Smell of the Lamp depicts a geometric house situated in a green landscape, with a blue hill, and dark starry sky in the distance, accented with a paper moon.
The Smell of the Lamp
A mixed-media print of a northern flicker woodpecker sitting on a birch stump. He is multicolored, with a gray head, rosy face, spotted breast, dark wings and tail and yellow feathers under the tail. He’s looking to the right, surrounded by more birch trees in a wintry forest.
Northern Flicker in the Birches
A mixed-media print of a cedar waxwing bird, sitting on a branch of a birch tree. He has a coppery head with a crest, black face mask with white spots, light brown upper back and gray-to-blueish lower wings and body. His belly and tail tip are yellow, and of course he has bright red waxy-looking tips on his wings. Other birches fill in the background and are wintery in white and pale gray.
Cedar Waxwing in the Birches