Emerald City – Limited Edition Linocut Print

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"Emerald City" Limited Edition Linocut by Artist Leslie Deil. This linocut shows an oil facility mirrored on itself vertically. Its ink grades from drak green at the top and bottom to yellow at the center. The background is white paper.
TITLEEmerald City
YEAR2026
MEDIUMLinocut Relief Print
ORIENTATIONVertical
HEIGHT30 inches / 76.2 cm
WIDTH24 inches / 61 cm
AVAILABILITYArt For the People Gallery

For a long time, I have found petroleum facilities visually interesting. I traveled past some of them at night on a road trip with my family and was fascinated by all their lights and how they looked against the night sky. Something about them looks out of place with other earthly structures.

In August 2025, I traveled from my home in San Antonio, TX to Corpus Christi, TX for a print exhibition. After getting out of the city, the scenery flattens out to the Coastal Plain. There are miles of grasslands, some scrub brush, and tilled fields with towns dotted along the freeway. As the freeway gets closer to the Gulf of Mexico, there are petroleum facilities that just pop up against the otherwise pastoral landscape.

The facility is abstracted out of the landscape and mirrored to bring attention to the geometry and other worldliness of the shapes.

"Emerald City" linocut print by Artist Leslie Deil hanging in the Art For The People Gallery in Austin, TX in February 2026. Also picture is "The Sharecroppers" by Leslie Deil.
"Emerald City" linocut prints hanging up in the studio to dry.
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