The particular in prints

Abstract

I make art because I like to look at things and I want to make images which describe how I feel about what I see. My work is based on a cycle of seeing and responding to the visual world as well as to the images that develop as the artmaking progresses. I choose subject matter which is visually exciting to me and has compelling formal qualities which offer an enticing opportunity to make descriptive marks. These formal qualities include: the abstract structure of forms; how forms are altered by shifting points of view or distance; the impact of light on forms; repetition of forms, pattern; and finally, the nature of large spaces (landscape) and intimate spaces (interior, figures). I prefer to work directly from what I see in front of me, rarely using intermediary sources such as photographs or slides. The mark-making possibilities inherent in the printmaking media of intaglio and lithography are well suited to my direct approach to making images. In addition, printmaking offers a means of creating a tactile surface with deep rich blacks, a surface which I find to be particularly expressive. If an image communicates something of how I experience both the external characteristics and the underlying reality of the visual world, as well as my love for the printmaking process, then I consider it complete.