Photo: Guil Dudley
Composite: Donna Brownell
My American French Tool printing press factors heavily in my work. Monoprinting is a way of getting a range from textures and marks that appear to be untouched by human hand to highly delineated forms.
Working experimentally, reinventing
the
medium is integral to developing
the meaning.
Not finding all the solutions
in a single medium,
I explore and incorporate a mix of media. In
addition
to oil based inks, my
one-thing-leads
-to-another approach has
sparked using acrylic paint, dry pigment,
graphite, embossing, burns, stencils, found
object impressions, archival digital images,
and
layered cut paper
My work has gradually moved away
from the wall
and the limits of a rectangular substrate.
This third dimension requires developing
construction methods and introduces light and
shadow into the mix.