ARTWORKS
30” x 44.5” many many layers of relief print, watercolor, acrylic, color pencil. 2023
The weight of water in the air and ocean, the anchor of the earth’s gravity compared to the feeling of home when one’s feet are planted in a certain place. The series began after reading of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milkwood. (Watercolor and color pencil, 15”x11”) (Monotype, 7”x5”)(Charcoal 5”x7”)
Charcoal Drawing, 5”x7”
Describing a feeling of invisible physical presence through absence, narrating worn stories.
Half After Five O'Clock is a solarplate intaglio print using collaged photographs of my grandmother and a crow, direct exposure of the plate to an antique handkerchief, and drawings on transparency. When I first discovered xerox-transfer lithography, many of my lithographs incorporated old family photos. This photograph of Eliot Thankful Morrissey was taken in a studio. I brought her outside into a forest where curious crows attend her.
Solarplate intaglio print on Rives BFk. This is a companion piece to Half After Five O'Clock. Here the crows contemplate the absence of the person who had occupied the chair, and their attention indicates that there may be still a living presence. One moment in time being "all" the time in the moment.
The birds attentively protect and care for what they hold or contain. Stoneware.
Lithograph on Rives BFK
A collage of images from a beautiful place I once lived, drawn onto stone and printed in an edition of 12. (20x30")
Press molded stoneware with underglaze decoration. 8" diameter.
(Tabby Ruins, watercolor 10” x 8”)
(The Carport was Andrew, watercolor 10”x8”)
(Flight, Color Pencil, watercolor 9.5” x 22”)
Linocut made in response to a question of "Why" posed by the curator of a traveling international exhibit called "The Scrolls". 6"x 6". 2006.
This large linocut began when I was making a series of Ceramic hearts and using newspaper underneath. When I lifted the heart, I found the marching feet of the local highschool'a ROTC. This was during one of the periods of escalation of combat in the Middle East. Neighbors had suggested to me that war between Muslims and Christians was inevitable and that the Bible said so. I have always taken the New Testament to be about loving one's neighbor, so I used this print to express my point of view.
I enjoy utilizing a medium (print) that has a rich history of publicizing opinion. Repetition is powerful.
Solarplate intaglio 5” x 7”
Drawing with relief prints, stencil, watercolor 9” x 13”
