ARTWORK
I’ve made clay bird bowls for many years. To me, they guard and embrace the spaces within, like loving parents. They are pinched, wheel-thrown and slab-constructed. Most are stoneware fired in oxidation. I use crows in two-dimensional work because they pay close attention and invoke for me the memory of my brother, Pieter.
Describing a feeling of invisible physical presence through absence, narrating worn stories.
Lidded vessel
Calling attention to the sense of invisibility we can feel and which can be applied to us, while maintaining joy in decoration and release in expression. The moth dress is 72” high covered with individual relief prints and burned at the edges.
Some from life and some imagined. Plein air is where I find beautiful color relationships. Abstraction is my access to sense of place, whether real, remembered, or within a particular condition of my temperament.
Solarplate intaglio 5” x 7”
Drawing with relief prints, stencil, watercolor 9” x 13”
Monotype, 7” x 4.5”
Half After Five: Solarplate intaglio print on Rives BFK.
All the Time: 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.
Beech Haven: 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")
