artist's statement

When you truly stop and experience the physical landscape at a single moment in time, in the sunlight or in the water or the trees, something will strike and affect you. You may see something in a completely different way. What you see is an emotional response to the moment. That response to the moment is what I call a visual landscape and I create a new work from it.

I remember I was three. I saw the sunlight streaming through the leaves of the tree and I felt awe – or what I know as awe now.

Just as you - and I - are affected by that physical landscape, the visual landscape does the same thing. That piece of art I have created from my emotions, evokes an emotional experience for you, the viewer. As an artist, I have manipulated the elements of the work so the eye will follow the intent of the piece in order that you, for a moment, will be lost in it.

I have worked in numerous media but I came to rest on printmaking. In printmaking, I work with ink, paper and the press. Each has its impact on the final print. There is hopefulness and desire from me in the work of all of these aspects. Sometimes the paper speaks to me, even to go so far as to change my original intent. Sometimes it’s working with the ink, the infinite colors. Then there is the power of the press and the unknown outcome.

When I’m in the studio, all of the time is a unique journey for me and I must be willing to go on the journey because if I don’t, the prints cannot convey my visual landscape. The work is a balance between free-form artistic expression and the technical precision of working on a printing press. I share with you the print that achieves this balance.