Artist Statement
Using direct, often monochromatic relief processes, my prints engage human relationships to nature through an interplay of material and process. My prints are place-based and organically informed by chance encounters with wildlife and landscapes. They use the craft traditions of relief print and handmade paper to create images and substrates that reward close observation and engender orientations of care.
My pleasure in making this work comes first from the acts of living and encounter which inspire its content… and later from the slow-encounter manifested through the printmaking process. Ultimately I am most satisfied when the work assumes a force and agency beyond my will as the maker. I believe this animation is enabled by the embodied perspectives of traditional craft practice which structure a layered sensitivity to the interdependencies of the living world.
