As an artist living in the San Juan Islands, I work in relative isolation from conceptual constraints and limitation. Work made in my studio responds to an impulse to make art that speaks to the universal as well as the thoroughly personal. The work results in a diversity of art and process; site oriented installation and sculpture utilizing salvaged, recycled and combined materials. Recent drawings are made by overlaying shapes and personifications, utilizing world maps and combined materials producing a figurative/geographical hybrid.
For me, printmaking is a delightful way to pick up information from the surface of our lives. As a way to make art it is an efficient way to remove control from the process, as each print is unique and only revealed after being pulled.Often the prints people respond to the most are the ones that are printed in between intention and lack of it.
The large block prints refer to myths of Flora & Fauna and the Tree of Life. From an invented narrative, animal and human beings are layered in nature as a mythic hybrid. These prints measure 30" x 22" and are hand printed on acid-free hand made paper. Each block print is unique, offset with contrasting runs of opaque and metallic water base ink. All prints are mounted and framed using archival materials and signed as varied editions.
In a way, this
art celebrates the incorrigible tangle of a wild nature pushing through
internal and external orderliness with beautiful tenacity. In the
writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez there is a sense of the world that
is saturated with nature's heartiness and its magic reality as original
home. For decades, these ideas consistently inform my art making.
