Working in series allows me to explore a theme, technique or method to its fullest, or just to see what it has to teach me. Each lesson learned shows up again and again in subsequent works.
A celebration of combined printmaking methods; Monotype prints pulled from life itself, enlarged to-scale and reimagined as multiple-color screen prints with hand applied embellishments, while staying true to the original monotype prints.
An experiment with shapes, various color application methods and stenciling methods. The common thread in this series is the color scheme and each piece celebrates some element of nature.
“Kindred Flowers” A reminder that even though we’re all very different, with unique backgrounds and colorful personalities, we’re still fundamentally alike in most beautiful ways.
Monotype prints, depicting scenes and etherial landscapes as viewed through a cellular matrix or frames. Monotypes are made by applying ink on glass and then pressing the paper onto the image. but you only get one. One shot. One print. One single image. Sort of like life, right?
AKA: How I spent my Pandemic.
A Celebration of Shadow, Shade and the Silhouette. A reminder that profound beauty, insight and hope exists even in the darkest of places, only if we just care to look for it.
“The Invitation” is a 3×4 foot oil painting that evolved into a massive, Reduction Method Screen Print Project. 54 hand-painted stencils and 86 color impressions, using one, single screen. Both the Painting and the Screen Print each took about a year to complete. Good thing I love the process.
The My Favorite Things Series is just that; an art series dedicated to all my favorite things. Each printed onto handmade paper, made specifically with imbedded materials intimately related to the subject matter. It’s a rabbit hole…
Even though there are only three colors in each piece, you can almost smell the subtle differences in the leaves of Spring, Summer and Autumn and even feel the crisp icy chill of Winter. Printed on handmade paper made exclusively from junk mail.
1-Color Screen Print and Hand-Washed Color on raw, unprimed, stretched canvas.
A collection of one-of-a-kind pieces that simply had to be created. These are the experiments, late-night rage prints and the “let’s throw caution to the wind” pieces.
All this stuff taught me a lesson or two.