I am a process artist, the making of the image is more exciting than the finished art piece.  Also I tend to work in conceptual suites, a series of images, that depends on an idea and vision; they all however have the common elements of a singular exploration of methods, texture, color and pattern.

     I find the act of looking at textures and forms in nature to be a great source of imagery. Both natural objects and human artifacts in decay offer rich textures and colors and they start a course of discovery as I work.  While I process the images and refine the realization of them, visual and tactile insights emerge.

     After studying alternative printmaking in Santa Fe, my definition of printmaking expanded from the intaglio and relief work I was currently doing.  While the traditional printing matrix of wood, or copper plate that holds the ink for the image has evolved into a digital image and opened my creativity to alternate methods.  This rethinking of the whole process and what makes the printing matrix fundamentally changed my art.  Using the digital image, either drawn or from photography, allows the pigment based printer to act as the press.  Using the acrylic brush, and pen & ink over and under the print allows further interpretation and refinement of my digitally painted and drawn works. There is a great deal of handwork in this process both before printing and after, and the results preclude multiples therefore each image is a unique piece.

     I attempt to extend each series into new areas of combinations of processes and materials, the great fun is in the experiments of the work. Exploration in these multiple processes are the zen moments of creation, the working of the surface the layering of colors and transparencies of colors, the building and obscuring of textures and color as the image grows.

     All of my new work has been influenced by what I see, and by the tactile process of making the plate and refining the image with acrylics, brushes and palette knives. So my excitement for this new way to visualize and finalize an image is partly about the process with its conceptual to hands-on elements, and partly the final visual texture and actual surface texture of the image.