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Medium:
Intaglio Printmaking
Subject:
Interiors, Light, Perspective
Style:
Abstracted Realism
Inspirations:
Surrealism, Nona Hershey, Yvonne
Jacquette
Notable Exhibitions:
100 Market St. Spring Exhibition,
Portsmouth, NH
Memberships/Societies
Mixit Print
Studio, Somerville, MA
Redbrick Art Center
artist-in-residence, Beverly, MA
Education:
BA Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
Artist Statement:
I am a printmaker working
primarily in intaglio, exploring and
combining etching, aquatint, and
mezzotint techniques. The
printmaking process suits my
inclinations: it allows me the
open-ended freedom to work and
rework a plate, to explore
practically unlimited
options in printing, while demanding
care, precision, and attention to
detail.
Abstracting my images through the
use of strange perspective and
angles, I most often work
representatively from photographs
and
pen-and-ink studies. The graphic
potential of the old facets and
hardware of houses, such as pipes,
heating vents, and most recently,
roof tiles, endlessly intrigues me.
The photographs and drawings never
convey this intrigue in the same
manner as the print; only when I
take autonomous control of the
etching plate does the image begin
to
live.
Having studied English literature
alongside visual arts, I have always
been captivated by narrative and
illustration. This interest has
inexplicably come to underpin most
of the images I create, though in a
pervasively silent, mysterious
manner. I see and attempt to convey
a certain life innate in inanimate
objects: they emanate a seed of
vivacity, and they begin to imply a
story about that life, yet they stop
short of revealing their secrets.
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