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Artist Statement
Relief printing has intrigued me for over thirty years. Beginning with holiday cards, I quickly found making prints to be a mysterious and satisfying medium. I am equally enthralled with the cascading transformation of initial ideas, the decisions required to achieve the imagined results, and the tactile aspects of using the gouges, inking the brayer and block, and hand rubbing the paper. Making prints inspires me to make more. Since the beginning I have been fascinated by the reduction block method for making multi-colored prints. However, since becoming a member of Corvidae Press this year, I’m learning to use a press and learning to use separate blocks for different colors. My interest in nature (trees in particular) and music and in finding visual ways to express emotions provides most of the subjects for my prints.
Solo Exhibition:
November/December 1999: OurHouse Jazz Concerts and Art Exhibits, Seattle,
Washington
Group and Juried Exhibits:
April 2008: Group show, members of Corvidae Press at The Salal, Port Townsend, Washington (“Conifer” and “Fireweed”)
March 2008: Group show, members of Corvidae Press at The Salal, Port Townsend, Washington (“Marpha, Nepal”)
July 2007: “Platemarks III” juror Beth Dunn, owner of Art Books Press, Seattle. Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, Washington. Merit Award for “Hommage to Lynne McElroy” (also accepted: “Pruned, Gnarled and Budding” and “Scotch Pine Imagined”)
December 2006: “Small Expressions V: juror Michael McCollum, past dean of art at University of Nevada and Cornish College of the Arts. Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, Washington (“Fort Flagler Foggy Dawn”)
November 2006: “Printmaking Currents 2006:” juror Sam Davidson, Davidson
Galleries, Seattle, Washington. Northwest Print Council/Print Arts Northwest,
National juried exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Arts, Portland, Oregon
(“Pruned, Gnarled and Budding”)
February /March 2006: “Alchemy of the Abstract III:” juror William Turner,
Tacoma, Washington. Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, Washington
(Three from the series “Meditation on Emotion”)
December 2005: “Small Expressions IV:” juror Cheryl Hahn, Board of Seattle Print Arts and Northwest Women’s Caucus for the Arts. Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, Washington (“Picket Fence” and “A Minor, Opus 3”)
October 2005: “Interactions: Art and Art:” Woodcut accepted in the below juried show was selected by a participating composer as the basis for a musical response.
October 2005: Art Port Townsend, “Expressions Northwest:” 7th Annual Juried Art Show. Juror Ester Luttikhuizen, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound. (“Split Rail Fence”)
July 2005: John and Pam Clise, Port Townsend, Washington
“Evolution in Wood,” one of three featured artists,
Exhibited fifteen relief prints
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Bachelor of Music, 1965.
