ABOUT
ABOUT ME
WHAT I'VE DONE
RECENT SHOWS
I am a fine art printmaker, represented by the emerging Ground Gallery (Expressionsgraphics.org) in Oak Park, Illinois. I have studied a wide variety of printmaking and encaustic mixed media techniques with several artists, including Sarah Smelser, Dutes Miller, Donna Brown, Steve Fisher, Jeffrey Hirst, and Sarah Rehmer, in an effort to hone my own personal style and process. My printmaking often centers on viscosity-inked monoprints that experiment with color and overlapping, repetitive layers. Surrounding landscape features are my primary influence, particularly the Niagara Escarpment connecting me to our daughter Mamie in Stratford Ontario. Additionally I enjoy creating collagraph prints from found objects.
My work has been featured in several juried shows in the Chicago area including the annual Her Voice Shows at Expressions Graphics from 2017 to 2020 and at the Oak Park Library Art Gallery in January 2016. I has also been active in Door County, Wisconsin during the last ten years. My collagraph monoprint “Bert” was selected for the Purchase Award from the 53rd Annual Juried Exhibit at The Hardy Gallery in 2015. In 2014 I was invited to decorate an egg using upcycled materials, “Last One In,” for the EGGstravaganza in Egg Harbor and celebrated the whimsy of this fundraising community art event.
45th Juried Annual Miller Art Museum 8/2020
41st Juried Annual, Miller Art Museum 11/2016
40th Juried Annual, Miller Art Museum 9/2015
Reply All: A Visual Thread, Guenzel Gallery 4/2021
From the Studios Juried Biennial, Guenzel Gallery 12/2020
What We Make Community Showcase, Guenzel Gallery 2/2020
14th Annual Gallery Salon, Guenzel Gallery 1/2016
13th Annual Gallery Salon, Guenzel Gallery 1/2015
58th Annual Juried Exhibit, The Hardy Gallery 7/2020
57th Annual Juried Exhibit, The Hardy Gallery 6/2019
54th Annual Juried Exhibit, The Hardy Gallery 6/2016
53rd Annual Juried Exhibit, The Hardy Gallery 6/2015
Exquisite Corpse: Head-to-Toe and End-to-End, The Hardy Gallery 9/2015
4th Annual Her Voice Show, Expressions Graphics 8/2020
3rd Annual Her Voice Show, Expressions Graphics 5/2019
2nd Annual Her Voice Show, Expressions Graphics (First Prize) 5/2018
1st Annual Her Voice Show, Expressions Graphics 5/2017
RECENT WORK
Collagraphs, Monoprints, Monotypes