In the early 90’s, I took a printmaking course and fell in love with the process. Unlike other passionate relationships that fade with time, the passion and love I had for printmaking has only gotten more intense. Several years ago, I started exploring mixed media and have found that combining collage and monotype is another relationship that works for me. In my latest work, I am combining photography and digital imaging with my other techniques. The possibilities are exponential.

Nature nurtures and inspires me. I combine elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press. When I like a subject, it stays with me. I am intrigued by memory and what remains in our mind’s eye. My work reflects scenes from previous travel.

 

When I return home after traveling to new and beautiful places, I keep the images of the places I have visited in my mind’s eye. I remember colors, textures, lines, smells, and experiences. In time, they synthesize into a series of work created from the experience of travel but not solely influenced by it. I have photographs that I have taken, but rarely refer to because my artistic process has gone beyond the image on the photo. It develops into a sense of place, in my mind’s eye, rather than specifically what was there. It is what I remember most about the place that stays with me. I do not care about a particular tree or meadow or field.

 

 More than a report on how it was exactly, I am interested in my expressive and passionate response to the color and pattern of the landscape or image. My work is informed by an accumulation of such scenes and the pleasure I get from the printing process. Rather than representing every detail, I am evoking the hidden and revealing the atmosphere. I create personal memoirs.

My focus on the process, not the outcome, frees me to be experimental. Following my passion and living my dream energize me to be productive and alive.  I feel like I am now living out loud. I want to share that passion and joie de vivre with those seeing my work, triggering a memory or experience for the viewer.