I enjoy the company of animals in life and in artwork. Invasive, endangered, and mythic animals uncurl from my imagination in the form of woodcut prints. Most of my prints are “color-reduction woodcuts” which means I take one block of wood, draw an image onto the block, carve then print. Each printed color comes from carving away the previous layer so when I am finished, all that is left of my wood block is the last color that was printed. I can never remake an image unless I re-carve a new piece of wood. The prints are very limited edition I start with 12 and mess up a few along the way. I am now offering reproductions of my sold out editions by the wonderful Portland based company Plywerk. Here is a link to my shop with the reproductions mounted on bamboo.
I enjoy the company of animals in life and in artwork. Invasive,
endangered, and mythic animals uncurl from my imagination in the form of
woodcut prints. I am constantly dumbfounded about how animals and the
environment are treated but my hope is that education and
understanding leads to respecting and
attaching importance to our own backyards and beyond. ‘Global Warming Band-aids’ are all about how we are trying to drastically change the environment with geo-engineering projects spanning from dumping iron into the ocean to shooting mirrors into space. ‘Invasive Animals’ are almost all labeled as such because humans transported the beasts all around the world. ‘Bird Migration Myths’ are about the Victorian era naturalist's thoughts about where birds “went” in the wintertime.
I make artwork because I believe that my job is to bring a voice to our drastically changed landscape that has been deprived, depleted, and altered.
