Stratigraphy Peaks Series 2017

These works began as a result of trips I spent canyoneering around Ross Lake WA and Wiamea Canyon on the island of Kauai. Hiking up a narrow river canyon to find a water source puts one in the path of water as it carves out the canyon. The perspective in finding the deep recesses of the canyon keep me on my toes, dangerous and intimate, residing for a few moments in earth’s time. These works came from drawings of these experiences and resulted in these simplified forms as monoprints.

Color Study

When I spend time mixing color, my thoughts are suspended in the paint. The paint develops a vocabulary which becomes emotional, speaking of the wee hours of the dawn and twilight when colors merge in subtle variety. Beginning with a palette of mixed paint made in this meditative way, the work emerges from these colors. It has a strong sense of what it is and what it wants to be. I let the prints and paintings develop from these color spectrums. The underwater color spectrums hold various species of Whale Calls printed over banded color made in conjunction with a biologist while in Artist Residency at the University of Hawaii in 2018.

“White Beaked Dolphin Call,” University of Hawaii 2018