I am interested in transitions in nature. Lately much of the work is a mediation on movement and on the evolution of patterns. This conceptual preoccupation is gathering and organizing small units of handmade and commercial paper to reveal a deeper understanding of the world I live in.
Grandiose sunsets, the current of a mountain stream over steep rocks, intimate rhythms of an opening flower are subjects of my explorations of progressions. I am interested in the intricate details of a tree to the sublime horizons separating earth and sky. The sequence of shapes of small units of paper is a metaphor for nature’s evolvement from creation to destruction.
I have been working with handmade paper for over 40 years. Making the paper from plants, preparing the pulp and forming the sheets is a critical process for my ideas. I was first known for my abstract painting on canvases, then for my pleine aire pastel drawing of landscapes. For 10 years I traveled throughout the American West drawing the large panoramas of the land, the shoreline and the vegetation. Throughout this time I was always working with handmade paper as well as other media. I base out of Austin, Texas and have a second studio in Taos, New Mexico. Eventually paper became my main medium. Now I divide my time between an urban studio and a rural studio and translate what I have learned from observing plants, landforms and cloud formations. I like to think of my art as nature not about nature.
My pieces are my personal interpretations of recurrent themes of wholeness and natural change. Material, texture, translucency and color are important in my thinking.
Grandiose sunsets, the current of a mountain stream over steep rocks, intimate rhythms of an opening flower are subjects of my explorations of progressions. I am interested in the intricate details of a tree to the sublime horizons separating earth and sky. The sequence of shapes of small units of paper is a metaphor for nature’s evolvement from creation to destruction.
I have been working with handmade paper for over 40 years. Making the paper from plants, preparing the pulp and forming the sheets is a critical process for my ideas. I was first known for my abstract painting on canvases, then for my pleine aire pastel drawing of landscapes. For 10 years I traveled throughout the American West drawing the large panoramas of the land, the shoreline and the vegetation. Throughout this time I was always working with handmade paper as well as other media. I base out of Austin, Texas and have a second studio in Taos, New Mexico. Eventually paper became my main medium. Now I divide my time between an urban studio and a rural studio and translate what I have learned from observing plants, landforms and cloud formations. I like to think of my art as nature not about nature.
My pieces are my personal interpretations of recurrent themes of wholeness and natural change. Material, texture, translucency and color are important in my thinking.
