My working process
My images are developed through an intuitive, playful process as I seek to reflect deep experiences of life's creative flow and brilliance in my work. Putting images down on paper, I spend time listening and responding to the evolving piece. I find the more open and curious I become, the more harmonic and unexpected the expression becomes. This expression comes from a profound and very alive place I feel is available to us all.
The feel, composition and meaning for each piece are built up through a layering of collage materials, mono printing and mark making. Collage papers are hand-painted, found, digital, mono-printed or stenciled. Some are very translucent and others opaque. Mono prints are printed directly on the base paper or on various kinds of papers applied later as collage. Marks and gestures are made with pencil, pen, marker, charcoal, pastel or paint directly onto the collage surface or onto the collage papers. Many times cut or ripped components from earlier pieces are brought in.
There is for me a love of the written word in the sense of the flow and visual language as in a poem rather than the details of a narrative. You’ll see that rarely can the words written be understood but instead there is something about how language and image meet in a new expressive form.
I have also been bringing in natural, almost recognizable elements; a reflection of the natural world. These may be a whale’s fin; the sensual movement of a serpent’s form; the movement of the sea, teeming with life. This speaks to me of the wonder of creation, the power of life running through all our cells.
My images are developed through an intuitive, playful process as I seek to reflect deep experiences of life's creative flow and brilliance in my work. Putting images down on paper, I spend time listening and responding to the evolving piece. I find the more open and curious I become, the more harmonic and unexpected the expression becomes. This expression comes from a profound and very alive place I feel is available to us all.
The feel, composition and meaning for each piece are built up through a layering of collage materials, mono printing and mark making. Collage papers are hand-painted, found, digital, mono-printed or stenciled. Some are very translucent and others opaque. Mono prints are printed directly on the base paper or on various kinds of papers applied later as collage. Marks and gestures are made with pencil, pen, marker, charcoal, pastel or paint directly onto the collage surface or onto the collage papers. Many times cut or ripped components from earlier pieces are brought in.
There is for me a love of the written word in the sense of the flow and visual language as in a poem rather than the details of a narrative. You’ll see that rarely can the words written be understood but instead there is something about how language and image meet in a new expressive form.
I have also been bringing in natural, almost recognizable elements; a reflection of the natural world. These may be a whale’s fin; the sensual movement of a serpent’s form; the movement of the sea, teeming with life. This speaks to me of the wonder of creation, the power of life running through all our cells.
