Mixed Media
These are some of the Mixed Media Silkscreen prints which I did at the end of college and for a short while after graduation.
They are rather large works on paper (coventry rag), usually started with a delicate graphite grid. Each unit it individually screen-printed, sometimes overlapping. Sometimes an additional layer is printed on Vellum and registered onto the paper. although the process proved to be very time-consuming, I found it to be meditative. I produced a lot in college, and after I began teaching, spent a year or so continuing to work this way. In truth, I was terrified that I would lose my artistic momentum once I became part of the "real world". for a while this satisfied me, but eventually I felt that I had exhausted this way of working. Being a new teacher, getting married, having a home, all of these things were new, and it felt like it was time to move on artistically too. I set up a studio at home and tried some new stuff, mostly large scale Non-Objective drawings, but most of them fell flat. It would be years before I would feel like I was as successful again.
They are rather large works on paper (coventry rag), usually started with a delicate graphite grid. Each unit it individually screen-printed, sometimes overlapping. Sometimes an additional layer is printed on Vellum and registered onto the paper. although the process proved to be very time-consuming, I found it to be meditative. I produced a lot in college, and after I began teaching, spent a year or so continuing to work this way. In truth, I was terrified that I would lose my artistic momentum once I became part of the "real world". for a while this satisfied me, but eventually I felt that I had exhausted this way of working. Being a new teacher, getting married, having a home, all of these things were new, and it felt like it was time to move on artistically too. I set up a studio at home and tried some new stuff, mostly large scale Non-Objective drawings, but most of them fell flat. It would be years before I would feel like I was as successful again.