Making monotype and relief prints, often incorporating the silhouette as a timeless human presence, led me to direct printing on fabric. Later I began manipulating photographs of my prints to create digitally printed fabrics. These images also became the catalyst for sewn and quilted works.
Bound Landscape, 65” x 65” x 3” Digitally printed fabric from original monotype, ribbon binding, thread gathering and stitching, oak, 2023. The work references landscape, both terrestrial and psychological, 2022.
Primordial Soup, 2022 13" x 13-1/2" unframed Gelatin plate monotype on Rives lightweight paper, 2022 This print is the basis for Bound Landscape.
Into the Blue, 40” x 40” Gelatin plate monotypes, wood, acetate, and marker. This print has two levels of imagery, one behind the acetate and the other drawn directly on the acetate, 2023.
Spring, 41" x 35", woodcut prints on cotton muslin, embroidery, ribbon, inked branch, 2022
VITRINE Gallery, 629 Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC, May-June 2023
Arthur's Quilt (Angels Watching Over Me) close-up, 35" x 35", original monotype: photographed, digitally designed, and printed, machine stitching, hand quilting, blood, 2022, Private Collection
Beginner's Mind, size, original monotypes: photographed, digitally designed, and printed, hand quilting, wood, 2022
Nestbuilding 101, 13" x 13-1/2" unframed, Gelatin plate monotype on Rives lightweight paper, 2022
Angels Watching Over Me, 13" x 13-1/2" unframed, Gelatin plate monotype on Rives lightweight paper, 2022
Magical Child (black &white), 13" x 13-1/2" unframed, gelatin plate monotype on Rives lightweight paper, 2022
Now I Lay Me Down, 13" x 16" unframed, monotype on lightweight Rives paper, 2022
Guide, 13" x 18" unframed, monotype on lightweight Rives paper, 2022
VITRINE Gallery, 629 Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC, May-June 2023
Red, White, Black and Blues, 51" x 43.5", printed image on antique linens, fabric, embroidery, found wood, 2021
VITRINE Gallery, 629 Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC, May-June 2023
Passing Through, 57" x 56", cotton silhouettes, appliquéd and quilted, hag stones, found wood, 2020-2021
Wisdom, size, gelatin plate monotype on Kitakata paper, 2020 Currently available through ArtFolios, Winston-Salem, NC
Magical Child pink series, size, gelatin plate monotype on Kitakata paper, 2020 Currently available, framed, through ArtFolios, Winston-Salem, NC
Magical Child pink series, size, gelatin plate monotype on Kitakata paper, 2020 Currently available through ArtFolios, Winston-Salem, NC
Finding Stillness, size, gelatin plate monotype on Kitakata paper, 2020 Currently available through ArtFolios, Winston-Salem, NC
Nestbuilding 101, size, carborundum print made with Akua ink on Arches paper, Private Collection, 2018