Hi Water Press

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Hi Water Press is the imprint under which Bloof offers original artwork by Shanna Compton. The Hi Water Press Shop at Bloof Books offers selected prints, collages, and cards.

Or stop by the following Downeast and Midcoast galleries and shops for other cards and prints: Makers’ Market Shop & Studio in Sargentville, Anodyne Book Shop in Searsport, and the DIAA Gallery in Deer Isle. Larger and one-of-a-kind artworks are generally reserved for exhibitions (2025 schedule TK).

WOODCUT, LINOCUT, MONOTYPE PRINTS

GREETING CARDS

ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINTS

About the artist

Shanna Compton in a white knit hat and olive coat, standing in front of a wooded stream with a large fern- and moss-covered boulder in the background. She has blonde hair with a good bit of silver and is softly smiling.

Shanna Compton is a printmaker and poet in Blue Hill, ME. She works in linocut, woodblock, collage, monotype, screen print, and mixed media analog+digital illustration. She also works as a commercial book designer and illustrator, collaborating with more than a dozen independent publishers.

She is the author of five books of poems: Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence Press), Midwinter Constellation (coauthor, Black Lawrence Press), Brink (Bloof Books), For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof Books), Down Spooky (Winnow Press). Her poems have appeared in publications such as the Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Court Green, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Typo, and The Best American Poetry anthology series.

All artwork ©2020–2025 Shanna Compton. For commissions, licensing inquiries, or other permissions, please get in touch via the contact form.