Screen Printing
Water soluble dyes, watercolor pencils and crayons, acrylic paints, inks and transparent extenders are combined with screen images, paper stencils and monotype prints, creating layered, multi-colored imagery and textures.
Origins
Inspired by ancient ethnic art, most notably Aboriginal art, shapes, lines, dots, textures and patterns were rendered and transferred on paper invoking a return to our beginnings. Returning to our roots, our origins, provides a connection, perspective and meaning to what binds us.
Artifacts
An artifact tells a story. Made by or used by humans, they tell us how we lived. Inspired by the primitive shapes and decoration unearthed and preserved, simple stencils were hand cut, layered with screen images, visually suggesting the history and commonality of our heritages.
Notions
An individual's conception or impression of something known, experienced, or imagined. Inspired by architectural shapes, reflections and structures, images were impulsively re-imagined with washes, textures and brush strokes; simplified to pure abstraction and impressions.
Flourish
To grow well, to succeed, to bloom, to thrive. Our relationship with the natural world has changed as dramatically as our perception of it. Exploring that fragile relationship, photographs are layered with textures as inspiration. Floral and fauna elements are represented with washes and grains, then transferred to paper and combined with screen images, diffusing their natural beauty.
The experience of the beautiful verses man’s desire to transform it.
Elements
Continuing the theme on nature and beauty, Elements reflects on the Ayurveda philosophy of civilizations deeply rooted in Mother Nature. Motion, growth, change and transformation are illustrated with transferred washes and paper stencils combined with screen printed images.
We are all created from nature, exist in nature and ultimately return to Nature.
