Media: Pyrography, silkscreen, relief print, collage, and painting on copper and brass gilded mulberry papers on panel
Size: 20” h x 15” w x 2” d
I named La Tempête, which translates to “tempest” in French, after a storm as tempestuous as the image. I hear clashing in this artwork’s discordant colors, a thunderous rumble in the scoring and searing of its surface, and I feel electricity in the shimmer of the gilded surfaces.
Media: Pyrography, silkscreen, relief print, collage, painting, and drawing on copper and aluminum-gilded mulberry papers on panel
Size: 20” h x 26” w x 2” d
Media: Pyrography, painting, silkscreen, collage, and wax grattage on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 14 7/8” h x 23 7/16” w x 2” d
Media: Pyrography, collage, silkscreen, and relief print on silver-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 11 3/4” h x 11 3/4” w x 2” d
Les Amas Nuageux means heap of clouds in French. The puffy cloud shapes of the lichens and drawings in this piece make me think of cumulus clouds multiplying in the sky before a storm on a hot summer day…
Media: Pyrography, collage, painting, silkscreen, and relief print on silver-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 11 7/8” h x 17 1/8” w x 2” d
Media: Pyrography, collage, silkscreen, and relief print on copper-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 16 5/8” h x 19 5/8” w x 2” d
Media: Silkscreen, relief print, and painting on copper-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 19 3/4” h x 19 5/8” w x 2” d
Media: Silkscreen, painting, and wax grattage on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 21 1/4” h x 14 3/4” w x 2” d
Media: Silkscreen and wax grattage on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 25 3/4″ h x 15″ w x 2″ d
Media: Silkscreen, relief print, and wax grattage on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 10 1/2” h x 19 3/4” w x 2” d
Named after a French term for virga–phantom rain–La Pluie Fantôme captures the ethereal essence of an early spring rain pattering over blooms just cracking through the vestiges of snow with its array of green drips, its icy silver background, and luminous lichens…
Media: Silkscreen on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 12” h x 20 1/2” w x 2” d
Meaning ice fog in French, I chose to tile this piece Le Brouillard Givrant because the silver background, limited color, and shallow depth in this piece remind me of foggy winter mornings in the Midwest…
Media: Silkscreen and relief print on silver and aluminum-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 11 3/4” h x 23 7/8” w x 2” d
La Brume means mist in French.
The blue lichens and translucent yellow mold make me think of mist rising off a lake, with the brown of a forest in the background…
Media: Silkscreen, relief print, and rubbing on copper-gilded mulberry paper on panel
Size: 12” h x 20” w x 2” d