Printmaker in Austin
My work experiments with the bounds of contemporary
print media with traditional techniques. After years of collaborative printing and teaching, I have been focusing
on exploring my own work. I was lucky to find an American French Tool Etching Press at auction and it gave me the opportunity to set up my own printmaking studio in Austin, Texas.
It has been exciting experimenting and developing my
own work through making prints. I come from a traditionalist foundation, working first with stone lithography for many years. I found my true love of Intaglio, which combines drawing, mark-making, layering and dimensional quality
of sculpture I appreciate. I enjoy the intensive techniques
of printmaking and the effort it takes to develop an image through process and time. My recent work explores the contradictions of abstract textures, minimalist layers and formalist design.
I joined Etsy in 2011 + The Etsy community has been amazing for support and inspiration. It has opened me up to new opportunities, allowed me to share my art all over the world and given a place to be surrounded by amazing talent. I heart Etsy!
a p p r o a c h
My approach is pragmatic and often monotonous relating back to need to find balance and control.
I use grids, sewing templates, office labels and other everyday organizational materials. The grids create a controlled system to draw my squares and shapes by hand. There is an evidence of time in my mark making.
I explore the repetitiveness of multiplicity of the image, the organization patterns and surfaces through overlaying ink and the contradictions of formalism with sectioning and shape.
Through printmaking I can exploit the redundancy of the matrix and use my plates as a visual language, layering and reusing plates to create various monoprints.
My prints are a convergence of order and reordering and the revealing and veiling of organized systems and personal habits.
I explore the banal of formalism, find order in the layering textures and traces of patterns with a quiet minimalist approach.
