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December 13th Ithaca Artist Market in the Women's Community building, come and visit!
Look in GLOBAL WARMING BAND-AIDS and POODLES for new artwork.
A tidbit about: 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, not a typical Kinko's reproduction.
I am constantly dumbfounded about how animals are treated. It is my intention to emphasize the ambivalent attitude people often have towards the animals that live alongside us. I found this instance from my childhood an allegory that perfectly describes the detached relationship of humans and animals.
Much of my artistic information comes from books. In the book, Out of Eden, Alan Burdick gives an account of a biologist taking a couple for a walk in Hawaii. The couple question bird songs heard on the hike. The biologist informs them they heard the song of a European house sparrow, a wren, and a cardinal. I was so disappointed after reading this because Hawaii has always seemed a delightful paradise filled with creatures beyond my imagination. To learn that Hawaii was filled with the same birds as my childhood home in Michigan because of introduced species left me deeply saddened, spurring a series of prints.
I make artwork because I believe that with education and understanding of the environment, people will learn to respect and attach importance to our own backyards and beyond. I hope to inform my audience about the natural world so that information can bring stewardship and respect. I am currently working on three new projects which include bird migration myths, global warming band-aids, and a children's book about invasive animals.Most of my artwork is shown online, click on the links above to visit the different topics.