Having painted for many years, I came to printmaking later in life and immediately felt in love with the process. I am inspired and sustained by both the beauty and colors of the natural world and of everyday life, and printmaking challenges me to distill my reactions to what I see. There’s a wonderful tension between the contemplative action of carving a block and the excitement of seeing an image come to life on paper.
Based on photographs I take, my handmade prints are either ‘relief’ (carved out of linoleum or wood blocks) or ‘intaglio’ prints (etched into Plexiglass or Solar Plates). I specialize in the reduction process: successively carving and adding colors to one block that once completed, can never be used again. All my prints are made in extremely limited edition runs – usually no more than six – and no two are identical.